====== The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life ====== Spector, Shmuel, and Geoffrey Wigoder. //The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life before and during the Holocaust//. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2001. {{amazon>en:0814793568 =100}} ===== Volume 3, Page 1477 ===== ==== Location ==== Yurevichi is located in the Polesie region of Belorussia. ==== Population ==== | ^ Jewish Population ^ Total Population | ^ Late 1700s | Jews are first mentioned | | ^ 1811 | 65 | | ^ 1897 | 1,287((This population figure probably came from [[sources:jer:start|Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron in Russian]])) | 1,577((This population figure probably came from [[sources:jer:start|Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron in Russian]])) | ^ 1926 | 1,139 | | ==== Schools ==== A Musar Yeshiva was active in Yurevichi until 1922. It was banned by Soviet authorities. A Jewish elementary school was opened in 1922. ==== Economy ==== In the early 1930s, 60% of the Jews were artisans. In 1930, two Jewish kolkhozes (collective farms) near Yurevichi supported 50 Jewish families. ==== Timeline ==== * 22 August 1941 - The Germans occupied Yurevichi * October 1941 - Germans establish ghetto * 19 November 1941 - Between 200-250 Jews were murdered on the banks of the Pripet Rever. * 27 November 1941 - Another 200 Jews from the ghetto were murdered beside a pit near the town.