Khashchevatoye

Jews first settled in Khashchevatoye in the late 18th century. In 1897 the local 3,266 Jews comprised 71 percent of the total population. On April 22, 1918 the Jews of Khashchevatoye suffered a pogrom in which 9 people were wounded. In 1926 approximately 260 Jews made their living working on three Jewish kolkhozes. The town had a Jewish council and a Yiddish school. Jewish artisans, such as shoemakers, tailors, glass workers, and tinsmiths, were members of cooperatives. In 1926 the Jewish population of 3,170 comprised about 56 percent of the total. Khashchevatoye was occupied by the Germans on July 29, 1941. The Jews of Khashchevatoye were murdered in a mass shooting operation carried out on February 16, 1942. The village was liberated by the Red Army on March 13,1944. In 1946 22 former policemen who were residents of the village were put on trial and sentenced to death. Several decades later Doryshev, the former head of the local police, was identified (according to some sources by the survivor Riva (Vera) Tashlitskaya) in the Urals region. He was tried and sentenced to death in Khashchevatoye in 1962.