Ushachy ( be, Ушачы, russian: Ушачи) 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 ...
, the capital of the
Ushachy Raion
Ushachy District is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the Vitebsk Region.
Notable residents
* Ryhor Baradulin (1935, Verasoǔka village – 2014), Belarusian poet, essayist and translator
* Vasíl Býkaŭ (1924, B ...
,
Vitsebsk Voblast
Vitebsk Region or Vitebsk Oblast or Viciebsk Voblasts ( be, Ві́цебская во́бласць, ''Viciebskaja voblasć'', ; rus, Ви́тебская о́бласть, Vitebskaya oblast, ˈvʲitʲɪpskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a region (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 ...
.
The city is located 101 kilometers west of
Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...
.
History
In 1939, 487 Jews lived in the town, making up 23.8% of the total population. The city was under German occupation from 1941 to 1944.
A ghetto fenced with barbed wire was established in Ushachi in October 1941. The Ushachi Jews in the ghetto were murdered on January 12, 1942, in pits dug in advance by local residents near the cemetery. Before the liquidation, some Jews managed to set fire to the ghetto and to escape. Some days later, the Jews of Kublichi were killed at the same pits where Ushachi Jews were killed.
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Urban-type settlements in Belarus
Vitebsk Region
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