Shklow

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• 1535: First records about the town.{{cn|date=January 2025}}
• 1581: {{ill|Battle of Shklow (1581)|ru|Битва под Шкловом (1581)}}
• 1654: Battle of Shklow (1654)
• April 10, 1762: Coat of arms.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Shklov was an important Jewish religious center. There was a yeshiva there in the 18th century. Shklov became the center of the Haskalah movement.{{cite web|title=SHKLOV|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13596-shklov|website=Jewish Encyclopedia|access-date=September 26, 2017}} At the end of the 19th century, there were 5542 Jews in the town. During the Soviet times 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.{{Cite web |url=http://shtetle.co.il/shtetls_mog/shklov/shklov_eng.html |title=My shtetl\Shklov |access-date=February 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224081754/http://shtetle.co.il/shtetls_mog/shklov/shklov_eng.html |archive-date=February 24, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} 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 {{ill|Ryzhkovichi|ru|Рыжковичи}} (now incorporated in Shklow). 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 shot. 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, 3,200 Jews were killed in Shklow and in the areas around.{{cite web|title=Execution of Jews in Shklov|url=http://yahadmap.org/#village/shklov-sklou-shklow-mogilev-belarus.665|website=Execution Site of Jewish Victims|access-date=September 26, 2017}}

• 1 railway station
• 3 bus routes

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

• Semyon Zorich, Serbian-born Russian General who founded an estate in Shkloŭ (Shklov).
• Yitzhak Salkinsohn, born in Shklov
• Joshua Zeitlin, rabbinical scholar and philanthropist, born here
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin, rabbi in Shklov
• Rogatchover Gaon, studied in Shklov under Yehoshua Leib
• Pavel Axelrod (1850–1928), Russian Menshevik revolutionary
• Zalman Shneur (1887–1959), Hebrew and Yiddish poet
• Baruch Schick of Shklov (1744–1808) rabbi and scholar, Hebrew author and translator[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15921/15921-h/15921-h.htm/ The Haskalah Movement In Russia – Project Gutenberg]. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
• Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician, born in Shklov
• Naum Eitingon, general of the NKVD and murderer of Leon Trotsky, born in Shklov
• Yisroel ben Shmuel of Shklov, rabbi, disciple of the Vilna Gaon
• Moshe Feinstein, rabbi, studied and lived in Shklov before emigrating to the United States to become the preeminent Torah sage and posek of his generation{{Cite book|last=Finkelman|first=Shimon|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/805391556|title=Reb Moshe : the life and ideals of haGaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4226-1084-8|oclc=805391556}}

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• Battle of Holowczyn

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• [http://radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?lang=en&miesta_id1=maszszkl Photos on Radzima.org]
• [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=647&letter=S SHKLOV in the JewishEncyclopedia]
• [http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=271 The murder of the Jews of Shkloŭ] during World War II, at Yad Vashem website
• {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|1949435|Shklow, Belarus}}

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