Slonim
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Slonim (Belarusian: Сло́нім; Russian: Сло́ним Polish: Słonim) is a city in Belarus in the Hrodna voblast, located at the junction of the Scara and Isa rivers, 143 km southeast of Hrodna. It is a station on the railway line between Baranavichy and Vaukavysk. The population is 53,100 (1995).
The Slonimer Hasidic dynasty came from there.
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- Cholawski, Shalom. Slonim in Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust vol. 4, pp. 1363-1364. Map.
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