Editing Gomel (section)

=== Jewish community ===
[[File:HolocaustGomel.jpg|thumb|Mass grave of Holocaust victims]]
After the annexation of Gomel by the [[Russian Empire]] and the creation of the [[Pale of Settlement]], Gomel gradually became a centre of resettlement for the Jewish population of Russia. According to the 1897 census, 55% of the population of Gomel were [[Jews]]. In 1903, there was a violent [[pogrom]] against the Jewish population of the city.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501674.2021.1952023|doi = 10.1080/13501674.2021.1952023|title = Science against Injustice: A Literary Investigation of Vladimir Bogoraz's Silhouettes from Gomel'|year = 2021|last1 = Berkovich|first1 = Nadja|journal = East European Jewish Affairs|volume = 51|pages = 1–17|s2cid = 238861156}}</ref> From that moment on, a gradual decrease of the number of Jews in the city began.  40,880 Jews lived in Gomel in 1939, when they comprised 29.4% of the total population. Most Jews had left the city in anticipation of German occupation, but still between 3,000 and 4,000 Gomel Jews fell victim to the [[Holocaust]].<ref name="YV">{{cite web |url=http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=323 |publisher=Yad Vashem |title=The murder sites of the Jews in the occupied territories of the former USSR: Gomel |date=2017 |access-date=2017-01-07 |archive-date=8 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108094358/http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=323 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s saw [[History of the Jews in Belarus#Late 20th century to modern days|mass emigration]] of Jews from Gomel, but at the same time restoration of Jewish institutions in the city by the remaining Jewish inhabitants.<ref name="JW">{{cite web|url=http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/homyel/gomel_history.html |publisher=Paul Zoglin |title=Gomel history |date=2009-12-16 |access-date=2017-01-07}}</ref>