Surazh County
Surazh can mean * Surazh, Russia, a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia * Surazh, Belarus, alternatively spelled Suraž, an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus * Suraż Suraż ( be, Сураж) is a town in north-eastern Poland situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, seat of Gmina Suraż in the Białystok County. Suraż, which has a long and rich history, and was a royal town in the Kingdom of Poland, currently ...

Surazh, Russia
Surazh (russian: Сураж) is a town and the administrative center of Surazhsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Iput River southwest of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 1,599 (1897). History It was first mentioned in the 17th century as the village of Surazhichi (); later as a ''sloboda''. Since 1781 it has been known as the town of Surazh-na-Iputi (), and since 1797—as simply Surazh. Jews apparently first settled in Surazh in the first half of the 18th century. In 1897 the Jewish population of Surazh of 2,398 comprised 60 percent of the total population. The Jews of Surazh suffered from pogroms in October 1905 and at the end of winter and in the spring of 1917. In 1918 a pogrom was carried out in Surazh by Red Army soldiers. In 1939 the 2,052 Jews of Surazh comprised about 23 percent of the total population. The town was occupied by the Germans on August 17, 1941. The Jews were forced into a ghetto after which the homes the ...
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Surazh, Belarus
Surazh (or Suraž) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region of Belarus, approximately 45km northeast from the city of Vitebsk. It is situated at the crossing of the Daugava (or Western Dvina) and Kasplya rivers. Jewish Community Suraž was a shtetl, with a Jewish population of 1,246 in 1900. In 1917, there were 6 synagogues. All of them were wooden, except one made out of stone. There were 461 Jews in Suraž in 1939 (15.4 % of the total population). The village was under German occupation from 1941 to 1943. Einsatzkommando During World War II, the Nazi German ' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectu ... 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 prin ...
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