Novo Glinyanny

In 1929 Jews from several adjacent villages in the Kirovograd District decided to organize a new Jewish kolkhoz called Trud (Labor) near the Glinyanny railway station. The new settlement with its Jewish population of around 50 families was called Novo Glinyanny. A four-year Yiddish school was opened in the village. Novo Glinyanny was occupied by the Germans in early August 1941. Soon after the beginning of the war the Jews had attempted to evacuate but some of them returned to Novo Glinyanny because they believed that being there was less a risk than being bombed on the way. In October 1941 the Jews that remained in the village were shot two kilometers from the town. (According to some sources in December 1941 Jewish children who remained alive after the major murder operation were taken from Novo Glinyanny to Peschany Brod and then to Pervomaysk, where they were also murdered.) The estimated number of victims ranges from 58 to 64; among them were 10 men, while the rest were women and children. Apart from the Jews from Novo Glinyanny the victims included several Jews from the western Ukraine. Novo Glinyanny was liberated by the Red Army in March 1944.