Shklov

Shklow is a city in Mogilev Region, Belarus, positioned 35 kilometres north of Mogilev at the Dnieper river. It has a railway station on the line between Orsha and Mogilev. As of 2009, its population changed into sixteen,439. Shklov turned into an critical Jewish spiritual center. There changed into a yeshiva there in the 18th century. Shklov have become the middle of the Haskalah motion. At the stop of the nineteenth century, there have been five,542 Jews within the metropolis. Jews living off of trading.

A dozen families worked in the Jewish kolkhoz called " Iskra ". In 1939, handiest 2,132 Jews remained in Shklov. The Germans occupied the city on July 12, 1941. The first execution of Jews befell a few days after the start of the occupation. The Germans shot 25 Jewish guys in Lenin Park. At the end of July 1941, two ghettos have been established in the neighboring village of Ryzhkovichi. In August 1941, the Einsatzgruppen arrived inside the city and gathered eighty four Jews beneath the pretext of sending them to forced labor.