Lukavica, Belarus

In the interwar period, Łukawica, as it was known in Polish, was administratively located in the Grodno County in the Białystok Voivodeship of Poland. According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 213, entirely Polish by nationality, and Catholic by confession.^[3]

Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the village was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945. In March 1946, the Polish resistance executed three NKVD officers in the village.^[4]