Porazava ( be, Поразава, russian: По́розово, pl, Porozów, yi, פּאָרוזעווע ''Porozeve'', lt, Porozovas) is a town in the Svislach District of

Grodno Region Grodno Region ( pl, Grodzieńszczyzna) or Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts ( be, Гродзенская вобласць, ''Hrodzienskaja vobłasć'', , ''Haradzienščyna''; russian: Гродненская область, ''Grodnenskaya oblast' ...

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 ...

near the town of

Svislach Svislach or Śvislač ( be, Свiслач, ; russian: Сви́слочь, Svisloch; pl, Świsłocz; yi, סיסלעוויטש or ''Sislevitch''; lt, Svisločius) is a town in the South-West of Grodno Region, Belarus, an administrative center of ...

.Vitaut Kipel, Zora Kipel ''Byelorussian statehood: reader and bibliography'' 1988 - Page 320 "He was born in the town of Porazava, near the city of Vatikavysk on December 16. 1888. His parents were poor urbanites who owned some land on which they worked. Hadleuski went to local schools in Porazava and in the town of Svislac." The town had a thriving Jewish community and synagagogue prior to

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 opposin ...

. Among those born in the town was the "mother of Yiddish theatre"

Ester Rachel Kamińska Ester Rachel Kamińska ( yi, ); née Ester-Rokhl Halpern ( Porozów, 10 March 1870 – Warsaw, 25 December 1925) was a Polish Jewish actress, known as the mother of Yiddish theatre. She won fame as the star of a series of Yiddish theater companies ...

. During

, Porazava was occupied by Nazi Germany from June 1941 until 15 July 1944 and administered as a part of

Bezirk Bialystok Bialystok District (German: ''Bezirk Bialystok'') was an administrative unit of Nazi Germany created during the World War II invasion of the Soviet Union. It was to the south-east of East Prussia, in present-day northeastern Poland as well as in s ...

References

External links

Porozowo – A tribute to its former Jewish community

Parafia

Radzima.org

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