Korma

Jews started to settle in Korma in the first half of the 19th century. Most of Korma's Jews were craftsmen or traders in grain and lumber. During the Soviet period a kolkhoz named Chervonyi Muravei operated in Korma. Until the mid-1930s the town had a traditional Jewish primary religious school and a Yiddish school. In 1939 Korma's 981 Jews comprised 40.7 percent of the total population. The Germans occupied Korma on August 15, 1941. Soon thereafter two ghettoes were set up - on Shkolnaya and Abaturov Streets. During the night of November 7-8, 1941 all the local Jews were murdered in the vicinity of Korma. Korma was liberated by the Red Army on November 26, 1943.