Ivangorod

Ivangorod, a village in Aleksandrovka County, was founded in the 1740s. In 1897 the 98 local Jews comprised 12 percent of the total population. The Jews earned their living as artisans or from small scale trade. In 1919 all the Jewish houses were destroyed in a pogrom carried out by bands of the ataman Grigoryev. The village was occupied by German troops on August 5, 1941. About 50 Jews remained in Ivangorod then. Several of them were shot in the village while the rest were taken to Aleksandrovka and shot together with the local Jews. Ivangorod was liberated by the Red Army on January 9, 1944.