Shatava

Jews began to settle in Shatava in the 16th century. In 1765 there were 164 Jews in the town. In 1897 Shatava's 725 Jews comprised 34.5 percent of the total population. In 1919, during the pogroms of the Russian civil war, the Ukrainian army of Symon Petliura killed 12 Jews from Shatava. Under Soviet rule Jewish craftsmen and artisans worked in state-owned cooperatives. In 1926 Shatava's 434 Jewish residents comprised 20 percent of the total population. A Jewish kolkhoz was founded there in the early 1930s. The Germans occupied Shatava on July 10, 1941. In the fall of 1941 about 300 Jews from Shatava and nearby Makov, together with some Roma (Gypsies), were shot to death outside of town by a unit of Einsatzgruppe C. The remaining Jews were sent to the ghettos of Dunayevtsy and Kamenets-Podolsk. Shatava was liberated by the Red Army at the end of March 1944. The town no longer exists.