of Vienna and Prague was the Chief Rabbi of Nemyriv from 1631 to 1634. By September 1941, the German kept the Jews of the city prisoners in a ghetto, where they were put to work, constructing the road from Nemyriv to Gaysin. On November 24, 1941, an Einsatzgruppen massacred 2,680 Jews in pits in the Polish cemetery. On June 26, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated. The Jews were driven into the synagogue, where 200 to 300 young and strong men and women were selected and sent to a labor camp. The rest, perhaps as many as 500, were shot behind the Polish cemetery in pits that had been dug in advance. Gallery Notable people Nathan of Breslov, rabbi Nikolay Nekrasov, poet Marko Vovchok, writer Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist Mordechai Namir, Israeli politician Ida Rhodes (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born in a Jewish village between Nemyriv and Tulchyn. Yosyf Semashko, Uniate and Orthodox hierarch References External links The murder of the Jews of Nemyriv during World War II, at Yad Vashem website. Cities of district significance in Ukraine Cities in Vinnytsia Oblast Bratslav Voivodeship Bratslavsky Uyezd Shtetls Holocaust locations in Ukraine