Tsybulev

A Jewish presence in Tsybulev was first mentioned in regard to 1776. Most of Tsybulev’s Jews were small scale merchants or artisans. In 1897 463 Jews lived in the town, where they comprised 12 percent of the total population. The Jewish population of Tsybulev suffered greatly from the violence of the years of revolution and civil war in Russia. Scores of Tsybulev Jews were murdered during the pogroms staged by armed gangs between 1918 and 1920. Many Jews abandoned the town at this period, seeking shelter in other towns and cities; very few returned to the town after the situation stabilized. The ban imposed by Soviet authorities at the beginning of the 1930s on private economic activity forced many of Tsybulev's Jews to search for other occupations. Many of them became integrated in agriculture by working on the local Ukrainian collective farm. In 1939 Tysbulev's 434 Jews comprised 7.3 percent of the town’s total population. The Germans occupied Tsybulev on July 21, 1941. On September 25 Einsatzgruppe C murdered 78 Jews of the town. Most of Tsybulev's Jews were murdered during the winter and spring of 1942 in a ravine outside of town. The Red Army liberated Tsybulev in late December 1943.