Stryzhavka
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Stryzhavka (Ukrainian: Стрижавка, Polish: Strzyżawka, Russian: Стрижавка) is an urban-type settlement in the Vinnytsya oblast in Ukraine, located in the historic region of Podolia. The population is 9,000 (2022 estimate)[1]
History
The town is founded in 1552. Until the
Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. Polish nobleman Michał Grocholski founded a Classicist
palace in Strzyżawka, destroyed in 1918.
Before the war, there was a significant Jewish population.
On January 10, 1942, 227 Jews from the village are murdered by an Einsatzgruppen. The next day, 12 Jews are also shot in a mass execution. A memorial is built on the site of the massacre.[2]
In June 1942, the
Werwolf (Wehrmacht HQ)
is built with forced labor.
References
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ^ "Yahad - in Unum".
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