Navumavichy
Навумавічы (Belarusian)
Village
Navumavichy is located in Belarus
Navumavichy
Navumavichy
Coordinates: 53°43′N 23°42′E / 53.717°N 23.700°E / 53.717; 23.700
CountryBelarus
RegionGrodno Region
DistrictGrodno District
Population
 (2010)
266
Area code+375 152

Navumavichy (Belarusian: Навумавічы, romanized: Navumavičy; Russian: Наумовичи, romanized: Naumovichi; Polish: Naumowicze) is a village in Grodno District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is part of Padlabyennye selsoviet.[1] Navumavichy is located a few kilometers north of Grodno. It has 266 inhabitants.[2]

History

It was a royal village of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth prior to the Partitions of Poland.[3] In 1827, the village had a population of 267.[4] It was again part of Poland in the interwar period, after the country regained independence in 1918. It was administratively part of the Białystok Voivodeship.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by Germany until 1944. Approximately 3,000 people including Jews were killed in this location by the German Nazis.[5] On July 13, 1943, the Germans murdered 50 Poles from the nearby town Lipsk at the site.[6] Among those killed was Marianna Biernacka, one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II.

References

  1. Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2004). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 179. ISBN 985-458-098-9.
  2. "Forty w Naumowiczach. Miejsce mordu rodaków w czasie okupacji niemieckiej".
  3. Вялікі гістарычны атлас Беларусі Т.2, Mińsk 2013, p. 87
  4. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VI (in Polish). Warszawa. 1885. p. 935.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. "Yahad - in Unum".
  6. Czarnecki, Władysław. Historia ziemi lipskiej (in Polish). p. 13.


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