Volkovintsy

Jews are first mentioned in regard to this location in the first half of the 18th century. In 1897, with the area under Russian imperial rule, 1,178 Jews, who comprised 56 percent of the total population, were living in Volkovintsy. In 1939, under Soviet rule, the Jewish population of the town stood at 764. The Germans occupied Volkovintsy on July 17, 1941. In 1941 or 1942 about 300 Jews, mainly women and children, were sent to the Derazhnya ghetto and shot to death with its other inmates in September-October 1942. In early 1943 47 Jews, apparently those who had been kept alive by the Germans until then, were shot to death at the Jewish cemetery near the town. Vilkovintsy was liberated by the Red Army on March 25, 1944.