Mendeldorf

Mendeldorf (named after the writer Mendele Moycher Seforim) was a Jewish village apparently established in the 1920s At the end of that decade a kolkhoz was established nearby, where 30-40 Jewish families lived and worked. After the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union a number of Jewish refugees and evacuees arrived in the area. Mendeldorf was occupied by German forces in August 1941. On September 3, 1941 about 130 Jews were murdered a short distance from the village. Mendeldorf was liberated by the Red Army in mid-March 1944.