Timoshevets Sovkhoz

The area of the Timoshevets sovkhoz (state-owned farm) had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Therefore, no Jews lived there before World War II. However, following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Timashovsk County came to house a large number of civilian evacuees from the western regions of the Soviet Union, including some Jews. Many local collective farms became shelters for refugees. The Germans occupied the Timoshevets collective farm on August 9, 1942. They set up an administration in the county, with its headquarters in the village of Timashovsk. On August 17, 1942, the Germans ordered the arrests of twenty-one Jews who lived in Timoshevets area, brought them to a railway bridge in the southwestern part of the farm, and shot them dead. The Red Army liberated Timoshevetz in February 1943.