Lelchytsy ( be, Лельчыцы, russian: Лельчицы, Lelchitsy, pl, Lelczyce) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Gomel Region Gomel Region or Gomel Oblast or Homiel Voblasts ( be, Го́мельская во́бласць, Homielskaja vobłasć, russian: Гомельская область, Gomelskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center i ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

, the capital of

Lyelchytsy Raion Lyelchytsy District or Lieĺčycki Rajon ( be, Лельчыцкі раён, translit=Lieĺčycki rajon; ) is a Districts of Belarus, district (''raion'') of Belarus located in the Gomel Region. Its administrative center is Lelchytsy, Lieĺčycki. ...

. Lelchytsy is located by the

Ubort River The Ubort (Russian and Ukrainian: Уборть; , ''Ubarć'') is a river in the Zhytomyr Oblast (Ukraine) and the Homiel Voblast (Belarus), a right tributary to the Pripyat in the Dnieper river basin. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Th ...

, 251 km southwest of

Gomel Gomel (russian: Гомель, ) or Homiel ( be, Гомель, ) is the administrative centre of Gomel Region and the second-largest city in Belarus with 526,872 inhabitants (2015 census). Etymology There are at least six narratives of the ori ...

History

The city was occupied by German troops in late August 1941. On September, 1941 and in early spring 1942, local policemen and German gendarmes murdered Jews of the town in several mass executions. Many hidden Jews were later caught and then shot. Then, the Jewish houses were also plundered. The last remaining Jews were shot in summer 1942, along with Soviet citizens, under the pretext of having links to the partisans.

Monuments

Monument to soldiers-internationalists who died in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. Opened in July 2013.https://gp.by/news/61858.html

References

Urban-type settlements in Belarus Populated places in Gomel Region Lyelchytsy District Minsk Voivodeship Mozyrsky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Belarus {{Belarus-geo-stub