Radun, Belarus

Coordinates: 54°2′53.16″N 24°59′44.88″E / 54.0481000°N 24.9958000°E / 54.0481000; 24.9958000
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Radun
Радунь
Urban-type settlement
UTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code
231390
Area code+375 1594
License plate4

Radun (

romanized: Radin) is an urban-type settlement in Voranava District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus.[2][3] As of 2023, it has a population of 2,078.[1]

History

Church of Mother of God of the Rosary in the 1940s

Raduń was a

royal town,[4] administratively located in the Lida County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The shortest 16th-century route connecting Kraków and Vilnius led through the town.[4]

It was the home of

Raduń Yeshiva
founded in 1869.

Raduń, as it was known in Polish, was administratively located in the Lida County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of Poland in the interwar period. In the 1921 census, 61.2% people declared Polish nationality, and 38,0% declared Jewish nationality.[5]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1866869—    
18811,526+75.6%
19211,254−17.8%
Source: [4][5]

After the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, Radun was occupied by the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR on 14 November 1939. In 1940, most of the yeshiva students were transferred to the United States via Japan.

From June 1941 until 13 July 1944, Radun was

Generalbezirk Weißruthenien of Reichskommissariat Ostland. On November 16, 1941, a fenced ghetto
was established on Zhydovska Street, previously a Jewish street. There were also Jews from neighbouring villages gathered in the ghetto: Dovguielishki, Zabolote, Zhyrmuny and Nacha. More than 2,000 Jews were confined inside the ghetto.

On May 10, 1942, 100 young Jews were requisitioned to dig pits in the Jewish cemetery. As the working Jews attempted a mass-escape, many of them were shot. When the ghetto was liquidated, more than 1,500 Jews were killed by the Germans and the local police. Nearly 300 skilled artisans were kept alive, and later sent to

Shchuchin ghetto and from there, after a while, to their deaths in an unknown location.[6] As of 2018, there were no Jews living in Radun.[7]

See also

  • Raduń Yeshiva

References

  1. ^ a b "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ^ "RADIN HISTORY". flora-and-sam.com. Retrieved Jan 15, 2015.
  3. ISBN 985-458-098-9
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  4. ^ a b c Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IX (in Polish). Warszawa. 1888. p. 450.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ a b Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom VII. Część I (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1923. p. 26.
  6. ^ "Yahad - in Unum".
  7. ^ Gershon Hellman (Feb 14, 2018). "Returning to Radin". Ami Magazine. No. 355. p. 50.

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