SHCHEDRIN
THE CHABAD SHTETL

Щедрин  שטשעדרין   Шчадрын

This site is dedicated to the memory of those who came before us
and to the memory of those who remained and were slaughtered.

Shchedrin
Timeline

• 1846: Rabbi Menachem Mendel purchases Shchedrin estate. Sixty families are settled.
• 1862: Traveler Chaim Yeshinovsky discovers utopian Shchedrin; writes account in Vilna's Hebrew weekly Ha-Carmel.
• 1865: Chaim Golodetz purchases 4,850 acres for lucrative lumber business.
• 1885: three Jewish synagogues; a Lubavitcher Yeshiva; an elementary school
• 1896: 129 households burned down
• 1897: eight synagogues; a pharmacy; fifty shops; a brick factory
• 1897: 95% (4,022) of Shchedrin residents belong to the Jewish Community.
• 1909: Rabbi Mendel's grandson, Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneerson, a.k.a. Rebbe Rashab, moved his yeshiva, Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, to Shchedrin.
• 1917: Russian Revolution
• 1926: 1,759 (91.1%) Jewish population
• 1928: Establishment of a Jewish kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm) named Sozialistisher veg ( "the Socialist Way" ).
• 1936: 420 Jewish families remain in Shchedrin.
• 1941: Driven by Nazi barbarism, Jews from surrounding villages escape to Shchedrin.
• 1942: Nazi Einsatzgruppen arrive in Shchedrin
• 1942: March 8-10, over 2,000 Jews killed — read more at Yad Vashem
• 1944: Shchedrin liberated by the Red Army in June 1944