Brailov

Vinnitsa Region

The origins of the Jewish community in Brailov date back to the seventeenth century. On July 10, 1919, during the Russian Civil War (1918-1920), a pogrom broke out in Brailov in which twenty-six Jews were murdered and some 100 Jewish women raped. During the Soviet period, a Yiddish school operated in the town. In 1926, 2,393 Jews lived in Brailov, accounting for 96 percent of its total population.

The Germans occupied Brailov on July 17, 1941. Only a portion of Brailov’s Jewish population managed to escape. On the first day of German rule, fifteen local Jews were killed. The Jews of Brailov were forced into a ghetto, and most were then shot in a series of operations carried out between February and August 1942, near the town’s Jewish cemetery. A number of Brailov’s Jews escaped to the Romanian occupation zone of Transnistria, but only some of them survived. The others were sent back to Brailov and shot. The Germans then declared the town “Judenrein.”


Female monastery of the Holy Trinity	It was founded by Felix Potocki in 1740 as the Monastery of Trinitarian


The most famous attraction - the palace of von Meck	Here lived for some time the famous composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky	The park near the palace


Monument at the mass grave	Few people know that the grave dug Gypsies, who were then shot nearby	New Cemetery

This is an old Jewish cemetery

			In his corner - a monument to the victims of the pogrom in 1919

Old Synagogue is located on the territory of a garment factory. It failed to come close - paranoid-old headmistress does not let anyone. Probably, she promised to Stalin not to let imperialist agents to ferret out the secrets of the production of panties ...

Next to the synagogue there is another small building, which housed the Talmud Torah or Beit Midrash - as a rule, such institutions were built in the vicinity of the main, the Great Synagogue of shtetl. A little higher - a former Jewish school - there is now a library, named after former residents of shtetl.


	Old jewish house

Roman catholic church		Brailov on map of Beauplan, 1650

Brailov, 2008, 2012

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More detail you can read on the Russian-language version of the site, as the English version in the process of finalizing


Jewish inn (zayezd), 1930. Photo by P.Zholtovsky	Sevrral inns, 1930	Inns, 1930	House with shop, 1930

Sinagogue - on the right side. View from the bell tower of the monastery	Town hall, 1930	Town hall, 1930