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Shchedrin

Community
Shchedrin
Belorussia (USSR)
Stone at the Jewish cemetery in Shchedrin. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2011.
Stone at the Jewish cemetery in Shchedrin. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615332
The Jewish community in Shchedrin was established in 1842 as a Jewish agricultural colony. At the end of the 1920s a Jewish kolkhoz named Sotsialistisher veg ("the socialist way") was set up.

Shchedrin had a Yiddish school. At the end of the 1930s about 420 Jewish families lived there. Approximately 50 percent of them earned their livelihood from agriculture and 30 percent from crafts.

Shchedrin was occupied by the Germans in July 1941. A short time later a ghetto was set up on one street and, on March 8, 1942, the Jews of Shchedrin were shot to death and buried in the local Jewish cemetery.

The Red Army liberated Shchedrin in June 1944.

Shchedrin
Parichi District
Polesye Region
Belorussia (USSR) (today Shchadryn
Belarus)
52.883;29.550
Stone at the Jewish cemetery in Shchedrin. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2011.
Stone at the Jewish cemetery in Shchedrin. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615332