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Yanushpol

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Yanushpol
Ukraine (USSR)
Town entrance to Ivanopol (formerly Yanushpol), contemporary view. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
Town entrance to Ivanopol (formerly Yanushpol), contemporary view. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615742
In 1765 the Jewish population of Yanushpol consisted of 32 Jews, who were considered a part of the Chudnov Jewish community. In 1897 Yanushpol's 1,251 Jews comprised 42 percent of the total population.

On March 25-29, 1919 the local Jews suffered from a pogrom perpetuated by Petlyura's troops. In the early Soviet period a sugar-production factory was one of the largest in the village. In the 1920s the factory's employees included 60 Jews. In the early 1920s a Yiddish school was established in the town; it was probably closed in 1934. There was also a Yiddish library with about 800 books. A Jewish kolkhoz Plug (The Plough) that had 50 members existed in Yanushpol in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1939 the 721 local Jews comprised about 10 percent of the total population. On the eve of the war Yanushpol's Jews mainly lived on one street in the town center.

Yanushpol was occupied by the Germans on July 3, 1941. Due to the compact settlement of the Jews the Germans had no need to establish a ghetto in the village. Jewish possessions were looted and the Jews were forced to wear yellow arm bands with the Star of David. The Jews also performed various types of forced labor, e.g.,. repairing roads and clearing them from snow at night and carrying out construction work at the sugar-processing factory. News of the mass killings of Jews in nearby villages was brought by refugees from there who managed to escape to Yanushpol. Around May 18 – 20, 1942, a group of 80 selected Jewish men was sent to Berdichev for forced labor, during which most of them apparently died. Some sources report that 47 Jews from Yanushpol were murdered in Raygorodok and five Jews were shot near Lemeshev village. The rest of the local Jewish population was killed in late May 1942 in the vicinity of Yanushpol.

Yanushpol was liberated on January 7, 1944. In 1946 it was renamed to Ivanopol.

Yanushpol
Yanushpol District
Zhitomir Region
Ukraine (USSR)
49.850;28.216
Town entrance to Ivanopol (formerly Yanushpol), contemporary view. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615742