Bocheykovo

The first Jews settled in Bocheikovo dates in the 18th century. In 1923 the 183 Jews living in Bocheikovo comprised 26 percent of the total population. Approximately 100 Jews lived in Bocheikovo before the war. The Germans occupied the town at the beginning of July 1941. A ghetto was aparently set up in Bocheikovo during the first days of the occupation. The local Jews were collected in one Jewish house, supposedly to be registered. They were then forbidden to leave the house. On July 1942 the Jewish population of Bocheikovo was annihilated. Bocheikovo was liberated by the Red Army on June 26, 1944.