Yagotin

Jewish settlement in Yagotin was allowed by the tsarist authorities only at the beginning of the 19th century, when the town was included in the Pale of Settlement. Nevertheless, Jewish newcomers were still banned from settling in Yagotin from 1882 to 1903. In 1897 Yagotin's 943 Jews comprised about 21 per cent of the total population. In 1919 two Jews were killed in a pogrom in Yagotin. In 1937 Yagotin became part of the Poltava District. By that time the number of Jews living in Yagotin had significantly declined to 365 (7.6 per cent of the total population). In 1924 a Yiddish school with 90 pupils was operating in the town. Yagotin was occupied by German troops on September 15, 1941. On October 5, 1941 280 Jews were shot in the area of the Repnins' country estate. On October 8 Sonderkommando 4a shot to death 125 Jews. The town was liberated by the Red Army on September 20, 1943.