Klimovo

Jews lived in Klimovo from the early 18th century. In 1897 the 541 Jews of Klimovo comprised around 10 per cent of the town's total population. By 1939 the Jewish population had decreased to 224 or about 4 per cent of the total. Klimovo was occupied by the Germans in August 1941. At the beginning of the occupation the Jewish population was registered. Soon thereafter the Jewish men were shot. The Jewish women, children, and old people were murdered in February 1942. The town was liberated by the Red Army on September 24, 1943.