Lyakhavichy
| Lyakhavichy Ляхавічы | ||
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Liahavichy Castle in the 17th century | ||
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  Lyakhavichy | ||
| Coordinates: 53°02′N 26°16′E / 53.033°N 26.267°E | ||
| Country |
 Belarus | |
| Voblast | Brest Voblast | |
| Raion | Lyakhavichy Raion | |
| Mentioned | 1572 | |
| City status | 1931 | |
| Elevation | 180 m (590 ft) | |
| Population (2008) | ||
| • Total | 10,997 | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
| Postal code | 225372 | |
| Area code(s) | (+375) 1633 | |
| Vehicle registration | 1 | |
| Website | liahovichi.brest-region.by | |
Lyakhavichy (Belarusian: Ляхавічы, pronounced [ˈlʲaxavʲitʂɨ], Russian: Ляховичи, Polish: Lachowicze) is a city in the southwestern Belarusian voblast (province) of Brest.
History
For many centuries, it was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The city's fortress, Liahavichy Castle, survived all sieges during the Russo–Polish War (1654–1667), and was nicknamed the Jasna Góra of Lithuania.
During World War II Lyakhavichy was under German occupation from 26 June 1941 to 5 July 1944. More than 3,000 Jewish inhabitants lived in the town, swelled by an influx of refugees fleeing from central and western Poland. In November, 1941, Jews are gathered in the central square, then taken and killed in a sand pit near the village of Lotva by an Einsatzgruppen. A new massacre took place in June 1942 when 300 Jews kept prisoners in a ghetto were killed in a place close to the previous one. That day, a revolt in the ghetto took place and several Jews managed to join the partisans.[1]
Personalities
- Alexander Mukdoyni (Kopel) (1878–1958) Polish-American theatre critic who wrote in Yiddish
- Sergiusz Piasecki (1901–1964) - Polish writer and soldier
- Nachman Shlomo Greenspan (1878–1961) - Rabbi and Talmud scholar
- Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884–1966) - first mufti of the newly independent Poland in 1925
- Will Herberg (1906-1977) - Jewish-American intellectual
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Coordinates: 53°02′N 26°16′E / 53.033°N 26.267°E
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