Gnivan

A Jewish presence in Gnivan is first mentioned in the last quarter of the 18th century. In 1939 Gnivan's 361 Jews comprised 11.3 percent of the town's total population. German troops occupied Gnivan on July 17, 1941 but the looting of the Jewish property in Gnivan by the Ukrainian population started even before the arrival of the Germans. Shortly after the start of the occupation Ukrainian policemen took a group of Jewish men of Gnivan outside the village and shot them to death. Soon afterward the rest of the Jews living in Gnivan were registered and forced to perform various kinds of hard labor. In the summer of 1942 about 90 Gnivan Jews were murdered, together with the Jews from neighbor villages, in the same place. Gnivan was liberated by the Red Army on March 15, 1944.