Milejczyce is a village in Siemiatycze County,

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province ( pl, Województwo podlaskie, ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province and its territory correspond to the historic region of Podlachia. The capital and largest cit ...

, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Milejczyce __NOTOC__ Gmina Milejczyce is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Milejczyce, which lies approximately north-east of Siemiatycze and south of ...

. It lies approximately north-east of Siemiatycze and south of the regional capital

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

. According to the 1921 census, the village was inhabited by 1,180 people, among whom 32 were Roman Catholic, 500 Orthodox, and 648 Mosaic. At the same time, 499 inhabitants declared Polish nationality, 241 Belarusian and 440 Jewish. There were 224 residential buildings in the village. The Germans invaded Milejczyce in 1941 after the Soviet occupation that began in September 1939. The Jewish population at the time of the German occupation was more than 1200. In November 1942, most were taken to a transit camp and then sent to Treblinka, where they were murdered upon arrival. A few had hidden from the transport, but the number of Jewish survivors from the town are thought to have been very few.

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Milejczyce Brest Litovsk Voivodeship Grodno Governorate Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939) Belastok Region {{Siemiatycze-geo-stub