Editing Shklow (section)

==History==
[[File:Sklou drawing second half XVIIIc.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An 18th-century drawing of Shklow ({{langx|pl|Szkłów|link=no}})]]
* 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}}

===Jewish history===
Shklov was an important [[Jewish]] religious center. There was a [[yeshiva]] there in the 18th century. Shklov became the center of the [[Haskalah]] movement.<ref name="Jewish Encyclopedia">{{cite web|title=SHKLOV|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13596-shklov|website=Jewish Encyclopedia|access-date=September 26, 2017}}</ref> 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 [[Nazi Germany|Germans]] occupied the town on July 12, 1941.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> The first [[The Holocaust in Byelorussia|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 [[ghetto]]s 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.<ref name="Execution Site of Jewish Victims">{{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}}</ref>