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Church Of St. Demetrius, Żerczyce
The Church of St. Demetrius is an Orthodox church located in Żerczyce, Poland. It serves the parish of the same name, which operates within the Siemiatycze Deanery of the of the Polish Orthodox Church. The exact founding date of the parish and the original church in Żerczyce remains undocumented. Local tradition claims its establishment as early as 1001, but the earliest written record of a church dates to 1583. In the 17th century, the church adopted the Union of Brest, becoming Greek Catholic. A new church was constructed in 1662 after the previous structure was destroyed in wartime. Another Greek Catholic church was built between 1726 and 1789. Following the Synod of Polotsk of 1839, the parish converted to Orthodoxy and joined the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Lithuania (later the Grodno and Volkovysk Eparchy from the early 20th century) of the Russian Orthodox Church. Between 1869 and 1871, a new church was built to serve this Orthodox community, but it was destroyed in a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubienka
Dubienka is a village in Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine on the Bug River. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dubienka. It lies approximately east of Chełm and east of the regional capital Lublin. History In 1792, a battle between Polish and Russian armies took place nearby. The town was occupied by the Germans during World War II from 1939 to 1944. The Jewish population consisted of around 2,500 individuals. In May 1942, the Germans reported that there were 2,907 Jews in Dubienka, some of whom had been transported there from neighboring villages. On 22 May 1942, the Germans conducted an Aktion in which they murdered a number of Jews at the local Jewish cemetery. On 2 June 1942, local farmers, under German orders, took Jews by horse and wagon to Hrubieszow where they were held for two days with little food and water, then put on freight trains and taken to the Sobibór extermination cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |