 Due to periodic pogroms and to impoverished conditions in the first two decades of the 20th century, many residents emigrated to the United States (and some to Israel).Those who settled in America formed a burial society, Yiddish Meidan Verein, purchased a plot in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York, where many of the early immigrants are buried.In 1941, the remaining residents of Starozakrevsky Maidan were moved to the Derazhnia ghetto and eventually shot to death by the Nazis.