Friling

Friling was a Jewish agricultural settlement established in 1925 by 6 Jewish families who migrated from the Gomel area in Belarus. In the late 1920s or early 1930s Friling became the kolkhoz "Royter shtern" (Yiddish for "red star"). Most of its inhabitants worked in agriculture or in the textile industry. At the end of the 1930s there was a Yiddish school in Friling. In 1932 about 200 Jewish families lived in Friling. Most Jews left before the arrival of German troops in October 1941. In the winter of 1941/1942 the few remaining Jews were murdered near the village or at wells near the county center of Fraydorf and in the village of Naybrod (according to different sources). Friling was liberated by the Red Army on April 13, 1944. After the war it was renamed Nikolayevka. The village was abandoned several decades later.