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 ====== The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life ======
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+Spector, Shmuel, and Geoffrey Wigoder. //The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life before and during the Holocaust//. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2001.
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+===== Volume 3, Page 1477 =====
-**YUREVICHI** Polesie district, Belorussia.
-Jews are first mentioned in the late 19th century.  Their population was 65 in 1811 and 1,287 (out of a total of 1,577) in 1897. A Musar yeshiva was active in the town until the Soviet authorities closed it down in 1922.  In the same year, a Jewish elementary school was opened.  In 1926, the Jewish population was 1,139 and in the early 1930s, 60% of the Jews were artisans. Two Jewish kolkhozes near the town supported 50 Jewish families in 1930.
+==== Location ====
-The Germans occupied Yurevichi on 22 August 1941.  A ghetto was established in October.  On 19 November 1941, 200-250 Jews were murdered on the banks of the Pripet Rever.  The rest were murdered beside a pit near the town on 27 November 1941.  In all the Nazis executed over 400 Jews.
+Yurevichi is located in the Polesie region of Belorussia.
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+==== 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 ====
-Source: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, Volume 3, Page 1477
+  * 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.