Babinavichy

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Babinavichy Бабінавічы (Belarusian) Бабиновичи (Russian)
Agrotown
Seal
Babinavichy Location within Belarus
Coordinates: 54°50′N 30°33′E / 54.833°N 30.550°E / 54.833; 30.550
Country	Belarus
Region	Vitebsk Region
District	Lyozna District
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Babinavichy (Belarusian: Бабінавічы, romanized: Babinavičy; Russian: Бабиновичи, romanized: Babinovichi) is an agrotown in Lyozna District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Babinavichy selsoviet.

History

The town traditionally supplied timber for the Imperial Russian Navy, as is reflected in its coat-of-arms which depicts two masts.

The town was previously a Jewish shtetl situated in the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1930, there were 262 Jews living there, with 115 remaining at the start of the war.

Notable people

• Chaya Mushka Schneerson (1901–1988), daughter of Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

References

Sources

• Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Dean, Martin (2012). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume II. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 1699–1700. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.

External links

• The murder of the Jews of Babinavichy during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.

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