Bobr

The first reference to a Jewish community in Bobr relates to the mid-18th century. Under the Soviets a Yiddish elementary school operated there. In 1924 a Jewish kolkhoz named Krasnaya Neva was established in Bobr and 22 families worked there. In the same year Bobr's 1,120 Jews comprised 44.6 percent of the total population. Bobr was occupied by the Germans on July 6, 1941 and on October 10 of the same year the local Jews were killed in one mass murder operation, only few of them survived. Bobr was liberated by the Red Army on June 27, 1944.