Lyantskorun

Jewish settlement in Lyantskorun began in the 17th century. In 1756 Jacob Frank and some of his followers were accused of having a religious orgy during one of their rituals in the town. Some of the followers were sentenced by the rabbinic courts in Satanov and Brody, which also imposed a ban on the Frankist movement. In 1897 the Jewish population stood at 1,893 and comprised 50 percent of the town's total population. In 1919 a pogrom was carried out in Lyantskorun during the Russian civil war. Under Soviet rule a Jewish council operated for some time in the town. In 1926 the Jewish population numbered 1,638, comprising 95.3 percent of the total. During the 1930s several Jewish families worked on the nearby kolkhoz. The Germans occupied Lyantskorun on July 9, 1941. Several weeks after the occupation began a ghetto was set up in the center of town. The Jews were taken from the ghetto to carry out forced labor and were often abused. According to one testimony, on May 7, 1942 German officials entered the ghetto and shot to death a number of Jews. The following day the remaining Jews were transferred to the Kamenets-Podolsk ghetto, where they were murdered along with Jews from other towns in the late fall of 1942. Lyantskorun was liberated by the Red Army on March 25, 1944 and later renamed Zarechanka.