Nalibaki ( be, Налібакі, pl, Naliboki, russian: Налибоки) is an agrotown in

Minsk Region Minsk Region or Minsk Oblast or Minsk Voblasts ( be, Мі́нская во́бласць, ''Minskaja voblasć'' ; russian: Минская о́бласть, ''Minskaya oblast'') is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Minsk ...

, in western Belarus.

History

During the times of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

, since 1555Dagnoslaw Demski, NALIBOKI I PUSZCZA NALIBOCKA — ZARYS DZIEJÓW I PROBLEMATYKI
p. 63
/ref> the settlement belonged to the family of the Radziwiłł magnates. Eventually it has grown into a ''

miasteczko A ( or (), () was a historical type of urban settlement similar to a market town in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partitions of Poland, partitions of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th-century, these ...

''. Since 1722 it was the home of a glass factory founded by Anna Radziwiłł, closed in 1862. After the

Second Partition of Poland The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition occurred in the aftermath of the Polish–Russian W ...

, since 1793 it belonged to the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. In 1896 it was part of

Vilna Governorate The Vilna Governorate (1795–1915; also known as Lithuania-Vilnius Governorate from 1801 until 1840; russian: Виленская губерния, ''Vilenskaya guberniya'', lt, Vilniaus gubernija, pl, gubernia wileńska) or Government of V ...

, Russian Empire. In 1919 a battle of the Polish-Soviet war occurred nearby. Nalibaki was part of the Second Polish Republic throughout the interwar period, in , , Nowogródek Voivodeship. Following the 1939

Soviet invasion of Poland The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subs ...

, it was annexed to Byelorussian SSR of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, the Jewish population of Nalibaki was massacred by the Germans, with some escaping and joining the

Soviet partisans Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland. The ...

, while 129

Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in C ...

were massacred by

on May 9, 1943 (see the Nalibaki massacre). On August 6, 1943, Naliboki was pacified again, this time by German troops, as part of the so-called ' Operation Hermann', and its inhabitants were deported deep into the Reich for

forced labor Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

References

External links

Radzima.org: Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

* ttp://www.iwieniec.plewako.pl/martyrologia/naliboki.htm Remembering Naliboki: "Dorastanie pod dwiema okupacjami: Naliboki" Villages in Belarus Populated places in Minsk Region Stowbtsy District Minsk Voivodeship Oshmyansky Uyezd Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Poland {{Belarus-geo-stub

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