Jeremicze

The first Jews appear to have settled in Jeremicze in the late 16th Century. In 1897, the village was home to 258 Jews, who comprised 29.8 percent of the total population. By 1921 – as a result of the great fire of 1908, World War I, and the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-20 – the Jewish community had shrunk to a mere 113 persons. During the interwar period, the town was part of Poland.

In September 1939, World War II began, and Jeremicze was occupied by the Soviets. In June 1941, the Soviet-German War broke out, and the German army entered Jeremicze on June 27. In the fall of 1941, the occupiers imprisoned the Jews of Jeremicze in a ghetto consisting of two houses along the Turzec Road. On October 28, 1941, the Nazis assembled all the Jews in the market square and confiscated all of their money and valuables. They then led a group of 20 Jews out of the town and shot them. On November 4, 1941, the Nazis liquidated the Jeremicze Ghetto and killed all of its remaining inmates, who numbered 97.

Jeremicze was liberated by the Red Army on July 8, 1944.