title: DZHANKOI
abstract: Pre-1941: Dzhankoi, town and raion center, Crimean ASSR, RSFSR; 1941–1944: Dshankoj, administered initially by the Rear Area, German 11th Army; post-1991: Dzhankoi, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine Dzhankoi is located about 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of Simferopol’. According to the census of January 1939, there were 1,397 Jews living in Dzhankoi and 2,610 in the entire Dzhankoi raion. German troops occupied the town on October 31, 1941. Ortskommandantur II/939 administered the tow