Sławatycze is a village in Biała Podlaska County,

Lublin Voivodeship The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, C ...

, in eastern

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, close to the

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with

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. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Sławatycze Gmina Sławatycze is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the village of Sławatycze, which lies approximately south-east of Biała P ...

. It lies approximately south-east of Biała Podlaska and north-east of the regional capital Lublin. Before the

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, the local Jewish population numbered around 1,300 individuals. In June 1942, the Germans gathered all Jewish citizens in the market square and during the next three days murdered them all. Their bodies were laid in a 100 meter long mass grave in Jewish cemetery in Sławatycze. The village has a current population of 2,738. Slawatycze 12.jpg , Catholic church

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* Villages in Biała Podlaska County Belarus–Poland border crossings Brest Litovsk Voivodeship Siedlce Governorate Kholm Governorate Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) {{BiałaPodlaska-geo-stub