Sharovka

Jews settled in Sharovka in the 16th century. In 1897 the Jewish population of 753 comprised 36.2 percent of a total population. Under Soviet rule the town had a Yiddish-language elementary school and a Jewish kolkhoz. In 1926 the Jewish population was 647, comprising 26.4 of a total population.

The Germans occupied Sharovka on July 8, 1941. On November 4, 1942 the local Jews were taken by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen to a clay pit outside of town and shot to death there.

Sharovka was liberated by the Red Army at the end of March 1944.