Lyady, Vitebsk Region

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Laydy is a hamlet in the Dubrovna District of Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

History

Lyady was founded in the 17th century. It was located on the road connecting Moscow and Warsaw. It is located near the Mereya River, once the border between Russia and Poland and later between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]

Jews

Lyady used to have a predominantly Jewish population.

It was the center of Chabad chasidism for over a decade, when the first rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi settled there in at the invitation of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski, voivode of the town, after his second imprisonment in 1800. He left the town in 1812, fleeing the French Invasion under Napoleon.

After the German occupation of Belarus in the Second World War, the town's Jews were gather in a ghetto. On April 2,1942, over 2,000 Jews in the ghetto were killed.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 (Russian) Вячеслав ТАМАРКИН. "ГЛАС УБИЕННЫХ МОЛЧАТЬ НЕ ДАЕТ!". Международный еврейский журнал "МИШПОХА" (Журнал "Мишпоха"). Retrieved October 27, 2013. 

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Coordinates: 54°36′1″N 31°10′4″E / 54.60028°N 31.16778°E / 54.60028; 31.16778

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