Vysokoe. The ruins of the synagogue.

There are several religious buildings of different faiths in the town of Vysokoe in the Kamenetsky district: a church, a monastery, a chapel and the ruins of a stone synagogue.

Jews appeared in Vysokoe in the 17th century and in 1607 there was already a stone synagogue here. At the end of the 19th century, when 80 percent of the population of the city of Vysokoye were Jews, there was a synagogue and 4 houses of worship. Jewish children studied at the Cheder, the Talmud Torah and the Jewish National School.

There are ruins of a stone synagogue between Frunze and Ordzhonikidze streets. The building has two floors. It was covered with a hip four-pitched roof. It was built in the 18th and 19th centuries. 

After the Great Patriotic War, there was a sports school in the building. And then the room began to fall into disrepair. Fragments of the painting have been preserved in the building.

In 1939, the population of Vysokoe was just over six thousand people, and two thousand of them were Jews. The Nazi occupiers came to Vysokoe already on June 23, 1941. A ghetto was created in which Jews were kept not only from the city of Vysokoe, but also from other towns and villages. The ghetto was destroyed by the Nazis in 1942 and more than two thousand Jews died here.

In 2010, a monument to the Jews who died during the ghetto war in Vysokoe was unveiled near the stone synagogue on Frunze Street.