Sokolets

Jews started to settle in Sokolets in the 18th century. After the murder of local Jews during the Haidamak uprising (1768), the Jewish population of Sokolets dropped significantly. Sokolet's Jewish population increased to 747 in 1897, when it comprised 27 percent of the total population. Under the Soviets a Jewish rural council was active in the town, whose Jewish population numbered 616 in 1926. The Germans occupied the town in early July 1941. On August 31, 1941 the 320th Police Battalion shot to death 380, according to German sources or 1.200, according to a Soviet document, Jews from Sokolets and the majority of the Jews from nearby town near the Sokolets forest. Sokolets was liberated by the Red Army at the end of March 1944.