Novo Arkhangelsk

The beginning of Jewish settlement in Novo Arkhangelsk dates to the 1770s. By 1897 the local 943 Jews comprised 15 percent of the total population. During the Russian civil war, in 1919, the Jews of Novo Arkhangelsk suffered from a pogrom during which Jewish property was looted, numerous houses were destroyed, and women were raped. During the Soviet period, by 1939 the number of Jews living in Novo Arkhangelsk had declined to 209 or 3.8 percent of the total population. The town was occupied by German troops on July 30, 1941. The Jews of Novo Arkhangelsk were murdered in the area of the local kolkhoz named in honor of Stalin in the late winter and early spring of 1942. The town was liberated by the Red Army on March 14, 1944.