Davyd-Haradok
Town in Brest Region, Belarus
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Davyd-Haradok or David-Gorodok[a] is a town in Brest Region, Belarus.[1] As of 2025, it has a population of 5,658.[1]
Davyd-Haradok
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  Davyd-Haradok Location in Belarus | |
| Coordinates: 52°3′20″N 27°12′50″E | |
| Country | Belarus |
| Region | Brest Region |
| District | Stolin District |
| First mentioned | 1100 |
| Population (2025)[1] | |
• Total | 5,658 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK) |
| Postal code | 225540 |
| Area code | +375 1655 |
| License plate | 1 |
History
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Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Davyd-Haradok was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland.
The 18 March 1921 Peace of Riga between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other defined Davyd-Haradok (Dawidgródek) as part of Poland in the interwar period. It was administratively located in the Polesie Voivodeship.
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 at the start of World War II, the village was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941. In 1940, more than a third of the total population was Jewish, 4,350 Jews. The town was under German occupation from 7 July 1941 until 9 July 1944. On 10 August 1941, 3,000 Jews older than 14 years old were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen unit consisting of Germans and their collaborators.[5]
Survivors were imprisoned in a ghetto where they were forced to perform forced labour and suffered harsh living conditions, many deaths. On 10 September 1942, 1,263 remaining inhabitants of the ghetto, the vast majority women and children, were murdered. About a hundred of them managed to escape to the forest.[6]
Notes
- Belarusian: Давыд-Гарадок, IPA: [daˈvɨd ɣaraˈdok], locally: [dɐʋʲid ɦoroˈdɔk];[2] Russian: Давид-Городок; Polish: Dawidgródek; Yiddish: דאַװיד האָראָדוק.