Horyngrod

There were Jews living in Horyńgród (Kripa in Yiddish) in the second half of the 18th century. In 1897, under the rule of the Russian Empire, Jews made up approximately 28 percent of the town's total population. After World War I, Horyńgród was incorporated into the independent Polish Republic. In 1921, it was home to 307 Jews, who comprised 15 percent of the total population of the town. In the interwar period, most local Jews were petty traders and peddlers. Some Zionist parties and their youth movements (HeHalutz and Beitar) were active in the town. After September 17, 1939, with the arrival of the Red Army in the aftermath of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Horyńgród became part of Soviet Ukraine. The Germans occupied Horyńgród in the first days of July 1941. On July 6, fourteen (or, according to another source, twenty-five) Jewish men were shot dead by a Ukrainian police unit outside of town, at a site near the village of Babin. On the next day, some local Ukrainians carried out a pogrom in the town, in which some thirty Jews were murdered; another ten died later of their wounds. In September 1942, the remaining Jews of Horyńgród (mostly women and children) were resettled in the ghetto of the nearby town of Tuczyn. They were killed during the liquidation of the Tuczyn Ghetto. Horyńgród was liberated by the Red Army in January 1944.