Alchin

Alchin (Alchin Fraygan) was a mixed Jewish-Russian-German village. In the 1920s and 1930s a Jewish kolkhoz "Kolvirtnik" ("collective farmer" in Yiddish) existed there. Almost all the Jewish inhabitants of Alchin left before the arrival of the German forces. Members of two or three Jewish families that stayed in Alchin were murdered on December 24, 1941, on the outskirts of the village. Alchin was liberated by the Red Army in April 1944.