Bober

The earliest reference to the presence of Jews in Bober dates to the late 18th century. In 1852, a Jewish agricultural settlement was established in the area. Eventually, non-Jews also began to settle in Bober. In 1897, the village was home to 208 Jews, who made up 32.9 percent of the total population. In February 1919, Symon Petliura's Ukrainian troops staged a pogrom in Bober: Eleven Jews were killed, and fifty Jewish women were raped. During the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, many Jews left Bober. In 1926, there were ninety-nine Jews in the village, making up 26.2 percent of the total population. German troops occupied Bober on August 22, 1941. In September that year, the village's remaining eight Jews (who were members of three families) were taken to the town of Ivankov and shot – apparently, together with the local Jews –near the village of Zaprudka. The shooting took place that fall Bober was liberated by the Red Army in the second half of September 1943. In 1986, in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, the village of Bober was evacuated. It no longer exists.