The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life

Spector, Shmuel, and Geoffrey Wigoder. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life before and during the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2001. en%3A0814793568%20%3D100?tag=splitbrain-20

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	1,287¹⁾	1,577²⁾
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.

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This population figure probably came from Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron in Russian