Igren

Jews lived in Igren starting in the 19th century. In 1897 the Jewish population of 301 comprised 15.7 percent of the total population. Most of the Igren's Jews were artisans or merchants. At the end of the 19th century-beginning of the 20th the Jews of Igren had a synagogue. In 1905 there was a pogrom in Igren. The Jewish community of Igren was destroyed completely during the calamities of the revolutionary years in Russia. In 1926 only 5 Jews remained (amounting to 0.4 percent of the total population). There were also sever Jewish patients in the Igren mental asylum. Igren was occupied by Germans on September 27, 1941. The Jewish mental patients were murdered in late 1941 or early 1942, while the few other Jews living in Igren were shot in 1942. Igren was liberated by the Red Army by September 27, 1943. In 1977 Igren became part of the city of Dnepropetrovsk.