Surazh, Vitebsk Region
Surazh
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Surazh
History
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1870 | 1,738 | — |
| 1897 | 2,731 | +57.1% |
| 2023 | 681 | −75.1% |
| Source: [3][4][1] | ||
The town was founded in 1564 by voivode of
Following the First Partition of Poland (1772), it was annexed by Russia, and from 1802 it was administratively located in the Vitebsk Governorate.[3] It hosted the main quarters of Napoleonic Viceroy of Italy Eugène de Beauharnais during the French invasion of Russia of 1812.[3] In 1870 there were 70 craftsmen in the town, and in 1891 there were 67 industrial plants in the town, which employed 1,279 people.[3] Two annual fairs were held in the town in the late 19th century.[3] In 1897, the ethnic make-up, by mother tongue, was 51.5% Belarusian, 45.7% Jewish, and 2.1% Russian.[4]
Jewish community
Surazh was a shtetl, with a Jewish population of 1,246 in 1900.[5]
In 1917, there were 6 synagogues. All of them were wooden, except one made out of stone. There were 461 Jews in Surazh in 1939 (15.4 % of the total population).[6]
The village was under German occupation from 1941 to 1943. Einsatzkommando 9 carried out the murder of the Jews of Surazh in conjunction with an antipartisan operation. On August 12, 1941, between 600 and 750 Jews were gathered by the Germans on the location of the former printing office in Sourazh. Then, they were taken and shot behind the linen factory, 2 km away from the village, in pits of the ravine, known as Loubtchyno. The bodies of the victims were exhumed and reburied after the war in the Jewish cemetery.[6]
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d "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.
- ISBN 978-985-458-192-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI (in Polish). Warszawa. 1890. p. 594.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Первая Всеобщая перепись населения Российской империи, 1897 г. (in Russian). Vol. V. 1903. pp. 76–79.
- ^ "Technical Problem Form".
- ^ a b "Yahad - in Unum".
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