Ulanov

The earliest reference to the Jewish community of Ulanov dates to 1765. In the late 1920s, many former Jewish traders were forced to seek employment in crafts or in agriculture. Some local Jewish families established the Molochnoye khozyaystvo (Milk farm) cooperative. A Yiddish school and a Jewish soviet operated in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1939, Ulanov was home to 1,188 Jews, who made up 70.5 percent of the total population. The town was occupied by the Germans on July 15, 1941. The persecution of the local Jews began immediately. They were assigned to forced labor; their property was looted, and they were subject to random murders. The Jews were concentrated in a ghetto that took up one street, and was surrounded with a barbed wire fence. In December 1941, some 300 Jews were deported by German and local policemen from the nearby village of Salnitsa to the Ulanov Ghetto. In the spring of 1942, another 150 Jews were brought there, followed by individual Jews who were caught in the area during the subsequent months. The Jews of the Ulanov Ghetto were killed in a murder operation in June 1942. Ulanov was liberated by the Red Army on March 8, 1944.