Yukhovichi

In the 19th and early 20th centuries Yukhovichi had one of the largest Jewish populations in the region. In 1897 635 Jews lived in Yukhovichi. Under Soviet rule many Jews began to leave the village. In 1926 the remaing 349 Jews comprised 56.6 percent of the total population. This process of migration apparently continued. In July 1941 the Germans occupied the village. In the fall of 1941 Jews from Yukhovichi were taken to Rossony and murdered there, some of them in the fall of 1941, and the rest on January 10, 1942, together with the other Jews of the Rossony ghetto. Yukhovichi was liberated by the Red Army in early-mid July 1944.