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Łachwa (or Lakhva) Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Łachwa, Poland (now Lakhva in Belarus) during World War II. The ghetto was created with the aim of persecution and exploitation of the local Jews. The ghetto existed until September 1942. One of the first Jewish ghetto uprisings had happened there.
Lakhva (also Lachva and Lachwa; Belarusian and Russian: Лахва, Polish: Łachwa; Yiddish: לאַכװע, romanized: Lakhve) is a village in Luninets District, Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Lakhva selsoviet. It has a population of approximately 2,100.
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Łachwa lies on the Smierc River, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Pinsk. In the late 1930s, Łachwa had a total population of about 3,800. Approximately 2,300 Jews were living in Łachwa on the eve of World War II. In September 1939, approximately 350 Jews who had managed to escape from Poland found refuge in Łachwa. 1.
Sep 5, 2021 · September 3, 2021 marks 79 years since the Lakhva Ghetto Uprising, widely considered to be one of the first ghetto uprisings against the Nazis during the Holocaust. The Lakhva ghetto was in the...
- AARON REICH
At the edge of the Polesia Strip, nestled between the ponds and the quicksand bogs to the north, the Smierc River and thick forests to the east, and the turbulent Pripyat River to the south – lies our native town of Lakhva in the center.
Sep 3, 2012 · Despite Soviet restrictions on Jewish life there, Jews fleeing the Nazi occupation of lands to the west began to pour into Lakhva, increasing its Jewish population by some 40 percent. German forces invaded the USSR in 1941, and occupied the expanded Lakhva on July 8 of that year.
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