Kumanevka

The earliest reference to the presence of Jews in Kumanevka dates to the census of 1778. That year, the village was home to five Jews, who were probably the members of a single family. The number of local Jews grew over the years, but it shrank dramatically in the early 20th century, and in 1926 there were only seven Jews left in the town. This decline appears to have been the result of World War I and the subsequent pogroms. It is also possible that many locals left the town for larger settlements in the early 1920s. Kumanevka was occupied by the Germans in mid-July 1941, whereupon its few remaining Jews were murdered. Kumanevka was liberated by the Red Army in the first half of January 1944.