Davyd-Haradok

Davyd-Haradok
Давыд-Гарадок (Belarusian)
Давид-Городок (Russian)
Town
Coat of arms of Davyd-Haradok
Coat of arms
Davyd-Haradok is located in Belarus
Davyd-Haradok
Davyd-Haradok
Location in Belarus
Coordinates: 52°3′20″N 27°12′50″E / 52.05556°N 27.21389°E / 52.05556; 27.21389
CountryBelarus
RegionBrest Region
DistrictStolin District
First mentioned1100
Population
 (2025)
 • Total
5,658
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code
225540
Area code+375 1655
License plate1

Davyd-Haradok or David-Gorodok is a town in Brest Region, in southern Belarus. As of 2025, it has a population of 5,658.

History

Early history

Dawidgródek in 1936

Davyd-Haradok was administratively located in the Pinsk County in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1586, it was a private town of the Radziwiłł family. It was located on a trade route connecting Pinsk and Mozyrz. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1795 to 1796, the town was briefly a county seat within the Minsk Governorate. The residents were mainly engaged in gardening, vegetable seed production, preparing dried fish, and producing shoes.

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.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19219,851—    
193111,374+15.5%
20235,774−49.2%
Source:

World War II

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.

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.

One of the bases of the Wachlarz Polish resistance organization was located in the town.

In 1957, surviving Jews from Davyd-Haradok published a memorial book about the community that once existed there and their experiences during the Holocaust.

Notes

  1. ↑ Belarusian: Давыд-Гарадок, IPA: [daˈvɨd ɣaraˈdok], locally: [dɐʋʲid ɦoroˈdɔk]; Russian: Давид-Городок; Polish: Dawidgródek; Yiddish: דוד־האָראָדאָק.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 29 March 2025. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Федір Климчук (2002). "Говірки Берестейско-Пинського Полісся". Пам'ятки України: історія та культура (in Ukrainian). No. 3–4.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (in Polish). Vol. I. Warszawa. 1880. p. 914.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (in Polish). Vol. X. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1932. p. 140.
  5. ↑ "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  6. ↑ http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/dawidgrodek/?view=[permanent dead link]
  7. ↑ "דויד הורודוק Dawidgrodek" (in Hebrew).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ↑ Witwicka, Katarzyna (2008). "To miasto Pińsk się nazywa". Echa Polesia (in Polish). No. 4 (20). p. 17.
  9. ↑ ספר זכרון דויד-הורודוק [Memorial Book of Dovid-Horodok] (in Yiddish and Hebrew). Tel Aviv. 1957.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)