Gorodok

Gorodok was a mixed Jewish-Belarusian town, with a Jewish population of 275 in 1923. During the 1920s and 1930s most of Gorodok's Jews were artisans in cooperatives or worked on a kolkhoz located nearby. In the 1920s the town had a Yiddish school. The Germans occupied Gorodok at the end of June 1941. Immediately after this 11 Jewish men were murdered. Soon thereafter all the remaining Gorodok Jews, about 50 people, were concentrated in one house. Several able-bodied Jews from Gorodok succeeded in escaping and joining the partisans. The rest, mostly women with children and old people, were murdered in the winter of 1941-1942 in two locations by Germans and local policemen. Gorodok was liberated by the Red Army at the end of June 1944.