Shklow Explained

Official Name:Shklow
Native Name:
Settlement Type:Town
Flag Size:150
Pushpin Map:Belarus
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Belarus
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Mogilev Region
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Shklow District
Population As Of:2024
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:14,870
Timezone:MSK
Utc Offset:+3
Blank Name:License plate
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Shklow (Belarusian: Шклоў|Škloŭ, in Belarusian pronounced as /ʂkɫɔu̯/; Russian: Шклов|Shklov; Yiddish: שקלאָוו|Shklov; Lithuanian: Šklovas; Polish: Szkłów) is a town in Mogilev Region, Belarus, located north of Mogilev on the Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Shklow District. It has a railway station on the line between Orsha and Mogilev. In 2009, its population was 16,439.[2] As of 2024, it has a population of 14,870.[1]

History

Shklov was an important Jewish religious center. There was a yeshiva there in the 18th century. Shklov became the center of the Haskalah movement.[3] At the end of the 19th century, there were 5542 Jews in the town. Jews traded for a living. A dozen families worked in the Jewish kolkhoz Iskra. In 1939, only 2132 Jews remained in Shklov. The Germans occupied the town on July 12, 1941.[4]

The first execution of Jews took place just a few days into the occupation. The Germans shot 25 Jewish men in Lenin Park. At the end of July 1941, two ghettos were established in the neighboring village of Ryzhkovichi. In August 1941, the Einsatzgruppen arrived in the town and gathered 84 Jews under the pretext of sending them to forced labor. In fact, they were taken to the village of Semyonovka and were shot in the kolkhoz. In September 1941, the Jews were taken to a ravine in Khoduly, between the villages of Putniki and Zarechye. They had to undress and lie in the ditch before being shot. According to Soviet sources, 3200 Jews were killed in Shklow and the surrounding neighborhood.[5]

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus since 1994, held a position as the director of the construction materials plant in Shklow Raion before he became a kolkhoz director and then moved into politics.[6]

Transport

Notable people

The Jewish family name Shklovsky or Shklover indicates that the person or their ancestors come from Shkloŭ.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа. https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/. 2 April 2024. belsat.gov.by. 13 April 2024.
  2. Web site: http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/perepic/2009/vihod_tables/1.2-7.pdf. ru:Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская. Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. ru. January 30, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100918181854/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/perepic/2009/vihod_tables/1.2-7.pdf. September 18, 2010.
  3. Web site: SHKLOV. Jewish Encyclopedia. September 26, 2017.
  4. Web site: My shtetl\Shklov . February 28, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160224081754/http://shtetle.co.il/shtetls_mog/shklov/shklov_eng.html . February 24, 2016 . dead . mdy-all .
  5. Web site: Execution of Jews in Shklov. Execution Site of Jewish Victims. September 26, 2017.
  6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3882843.stm/ Profile: Alexander Lukashenko – BBC News, 9 January 2007
  7. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15921/15921-h/15921-h.htm/ The Haskalah Movement In Russia – Project Gutenberg
  8. Book: Finkelman, Shimon. Reb Moshe : the life and ideals of haGaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. 2011. 978-1-4226-1084-8. 805391556.

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