Jews in Kobrin district

The Holocaust claimed the lives about six million European Jews, among these victims and about 6,5 thousand Kobrin Jews. But what is figures? They are so huge that can easily turn into abstraction and lose true, human meaning. But behind each figure – children, parents, relatives, each name are a friend, the neighbor, darling, it is the lost future forever.

Information about the residents of Kobrin district exterminated by fascists and who are taken out for forced labor:

No. of a payment order	Name of the Village Councils	In total unicht.	Including				It is stolen on penal servitude
			children	zhenshch.	it is old.	muzhch.	muzhch.	zhenshch.	in total
1.	Eryomichsky	31	-	8	-	23	119	25	144
2.	Zasimovsky	69	7	33	-	29	42	24	66
3.	Peskovsky	67	7	11	9	40	24	9	33
4.	Zakrosnitsky	15	2	1	1	11	11	-	11
5.	Mr. Kobrin	6 828	1717	2036	30	75	77	38	115
6.	Batchinsky	73	5	25	4	39	92	23	115
7.	Zhukhovetsky	130	-	17	12	101	76	11	87
8.	Krasnoles-sky	59	6	23	2	28	44	29	73
9.	Hidrinsky	23	-	5	-	18	23	3	26
10.	Strigovsky	53	16	13	4	20	64	42	106
11.	Tevelsky	2	1	-	-	1	11	18	29
12.	Lepesovsky	23	2	2	-	19	120	50	170
13.	Kiselyovsky	49	5	10	-	34	21	4	25
14.	Kozyshchensky	227	76	79	42	30	22	9	31
Total on the area		7 649	1844	2263	74	468	746	284	1031

 

The specified data of executive committee of Kobrin regional council of deputies of workers on the losses caused to the area by fascist aggressors in days of the Great Patriotic War (June, 1969):

No. of a payment order	Village council	Unicht. houses	Unicht. person	It is taken out on penal servitude	Returned from penal servitude	Died on fronts	Died in school desks. groups
1.	Aniskovichsky	71	38	77	59	88	8
2.	Ostromichs-ky	255	329	138	102	127	57
3.	Batchinsky	71	103	85	73	80	16
4.	Gorodetsky	193	514	150	105	167	45
5.	Divinsky	207	1593	317	82	123	19
6.	Zalessky	4	29	19	15	54	5
7.	Kiselyovsky	62	79	31	30	92	27
8.	Novosyolkovsky	10	37	111	99	93	52
9.	Osovsky	236	228	33	28	23	35
10.	Povitevsky	131	155	21	18	43	16
11.	Petkovsky	88	105	53	46	101	30
12.	Tevelsky	67	128	161	143	141	20
13.	Byuse= "Ar ial"> Yaromichsky	298	429	222	176	187	40
Total on the area		1693	3767	1397	976	1315	370

Data on human losses till to Kobrin for years of the Great Patriotic War:
- The number of inhabitants before war – 16 000 people.
- The number of the inhabitants destroyed by Hitlerites – 6 900 people.
- Quantity taken out on a hard labor to Germany – 120 people.
- The number of the dead on fronts of the Great Patriotic War – 69 people.
- The number of the dead in guerrilla groups – 23 persons.

After war in the capital of Israel – Tel Aviv the monument to the victims of the Jewish people of 1942 in Kobrin district was established. In 1975 on the place of mass executions of Jews on the southern suburb of the city the monument was established.

Monument to the Jews who died from hands of the fascist-German aggressors in October, 1942.

In 1951 in Divin on a grave of the Jews shot in the years of occupation the obelisk was put.

In the city remind the building of the former synagogue of existence of once many thousands Kobrin Jewry down the street May Day, two houses of worship down the street Soviet (nowadays reconstructed), former cemeteries of fellow citizens of the Jewish nationality down the street to Tevelskaya (gravestones) and down the street May Day (now on it stadium of high school No. 2 remained).

Former synagogue

Former cemetery of fellow citizens of the Jewish nationality

Work materials "Genocide of the Jewish people in Kobrin district" are partially used
Authors: Kupranovich A., Kokina S. F., Kaplan Yu. V. 



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