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What happened to the Jews in Belarus

147 events, 1495 AD to 1966 AD

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15th century

  1. 1495 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  2. 1495–1503 AD Alexander banishes the Jews of Brest and other Lithuanian cities · Brest, Belarus
  3. 1495–1503 AD Brest synagogue given to Christians as a hospital · Brest, Belarus

16th century

  1. 1503 AD Alexander permits expelled Jews to return to Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  2. 1514 AD Privileges confirmed, freeing Jews from special duties and taxes · Pinsk, Belarus
  3. 1529 AD Special military tax imposed on Jews of Novogrudok and Lithuania · Navahrudak, Belarus
  4. 1549 AD Queen Bona restricts Jewish house purchases in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  5. 1551 AD Pinsk Jews freed from the "serebschizna" tax · Pinsk, Belarus
  6. 1561 AD Pinsk Jews placed under a royal judge and stores handed to burghers · Pinsk, Belarus
  7. 1563 AD Jews of Novogrudok ordered to settle in lower part of town · Navahrudak, Belarus
  8. 1563 AD Polotsk pogrom · Polotsk, Belarus
  9. 1564 AD Blood libel in Brest-Litovsk · Brest (Brest-Litovsk), Belarus
  10. 1580 AD Edict against Polotsk Jews in Magdeburg Rights charter · Polotsk, Belarus
  11. 1581 AD Jewish shops in Pinsk market ordered torn down for a town hall · Pinsk, Belarus
  12. 1581 AD Jews barred from acquiring houses in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  13. 1597 AD Charter of Vitebsk bars Jews from living in the city · Vitebsk, Belarus

17th century

  1. 1606 AD Ban on Jewish shops and commerce in Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  2. 1616 AD Destruction of Jewish property in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  3. 1616 AD Jesuits in Grodno falsely accuse Jews of host desecration · Grodno, Belarus
  4. 1616 AD Oppressive measures and blood accusations after Jesuits arrive in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  5. 1623 AD Slonim Jews placed under Brest jurisdiction · Slonim, Belarus
  6. 1626 AD Edict confining Mahilyow Jews to the Jewish street · Mogilev, Belarus
  7. 1626–1646 AD Jews removed from central Moghilef to lower quarter · Mogilev, Belarus
  8. 1633 AD Ladislaus IV confirms residence edict and bans Jewish baths and breweries · Mogilev, Belarus
  9. 1639 AD Suspicious-death accusation against Mahilyow Jews · Mogilev, Belarus
  10. 1645 AD Tashlik riot against Jews of Mahilyow · Mogilev, Belarus
  11. 1648 AD Chmielnicki massacre of Jews in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  12. 1648 AD Cossack massacre of Jews in Gomel · Homel (Gomel), Belarus
  13. 1648 AD Cossack massacre of the Jews of Cherikov · Cherykaw (Cherikov), Belarus
  14. 1648 AD Massacre of Jews at Homel by Cossacks · Gomel, Belarus
  15. 1648–1649 AD Killing of Bykhov Jews during Chmielnicki uprising · Bykhaw (Bykhov), Belarus
  16. 1649 AD Destruction of Brest by Cossacks and Tatars · Brest, Belarus
  17. 1649 AD Massacre of Jews of Brest-Litovsk by Chmielnicki's Cossacks · Brest (Brest-Litovsk), Belarus
  18. 1654 AD Czar orders expulsion of Jews from Mahilyow · Mogilev, Belarus
  19. 1654 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Moghilef · Mogilev, Belarus
  20. 1654–1667 AD Jews of Vitebsk captured and robbed by Russians · Vitebsk, Belarus
  21. 1655 AD Baptism of surviving Mahilyow Jews under threat · Mogilev, Belarus
  22. 1655 AD Massacre of Mahilyow Jews by Russian soldiers · Mogilev, Belarus
  23. 1655 AD Massacre of Polotsk Jews by Russians and Cossacks · Polotsk, Belarus
  24. 1656 AD Bishop demands Jews clear land for a church · Brest, Belarus
  25. 1660 AD Muscovite and Cossack depredations against Pinsk Jews · Pinsk, Belarus
  26. 1660 AD Persecution of Slonim Jews by Czarniecki's armies · Slonim, Belarus
  27. 1665 AD Nobles attack Brest synagogue and kill a Jew · Brest, Belarus
  28. 1669 AD Brest authorities impose extra taxes on Jews · Brest, Belarus
  29. 1669 AD Brest nobility seek ban on Jews employing Christian servants · Brest, Belarus
  30. 1669 AD Riots by priests and others against Jews of Brest · Brest, Belarus
  31. 1670 AD Ritual-murder style accusation against the Jews of Kletzk · Kletsk, Belarus
  32. 1679 AD Sobieski restores Jewish privileges in Vitebsk · Vitebsk, Belarus

18th century

  1. 1708 AD Jewish quarter of Vitebsk destroyed and synagogue site seized · Vitebsk, Belarus
  2. 1780 AD Jewish merchants of Polotsk given equal rights · Polotsk, Belarus
  3. 1785 AD Equal rights granted in territories acquired from Poland · Belarus
  4. 1786 AD Ukase restores leasing rights and municipal eligibility to White-Russian Jews · Belarus
  5. 1790 AD Execution of Eleazar b. Solomon for alleged murder in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  6. 1790 AD Violence against Jews in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  7. 1795 AD Order to remove Jews to towns in Minsk, Volhynia and Podolia · Minsk, Belarus and elsewhere
  8. c. 1799 AD Blood libel investigated in White Russia · Belarus
  9. 1799 AD Senno blood-libel arrests · Sianno, Belarus

19th century

  1. 1820 AD Ritual murder trial in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  2. 1827 AD Partial removal of Jews from rural Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  3. 1839 AD Tax immunity granted to non-Jewish merchants of Polotsk only · Polotsk, Belarus
  4. 1881 AD Anti-Jewish hooliganism burns Jewish homes in Slonim · Slonim, Belarus
  5. 1882 AD Expulsion of Jews from villages near Slonim · Slonim, Belarus
  6. 1883 AD Blood libel trial of the Lotzov family in Lutzyn · Ludza (Lutzyn), Latvia and elsewhere

20th century

  1. 1903 AD Gomel pogrom of 1903 · Homel (Gomel), Belarus
  2. 1903 AD Homel riot · Gomel, Belarus
  3. 1903 AD Prosecution of Gomel Jewish self-defense members · Homel (Gomel), Belarus
  4. 1905 AD October 1905 riots in Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  5. 1917–1920 AD Pogroms during the Russian Civil War · Southern Russia, Russia and elsewhere
  6. 1919 AD Pinsk massacre · Pinsk, Belarus
  7. 1921 AD Soviet public trial "over the heder" and synagogue confiscations in Vitebsk · Vitebsk, Belarus
  8. 1935 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  9. 1939 AD Pińsk Ghetto · Pinsk, Belarus
  10. 1939–1941 AD Soviet closure of Jewish institutions and expulsion of businessmen in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  11. 1940 AD Deportation of Jewish refugees from Pinsk to Soviet interior · Pinsk, Belarus
  12. 1940 AD Exile of Jewish refugees from Slonim to Russia · Slonim, Belarus
  13. 1941 AD Brześć Ghetto · Brest (Brześć), Belarus
  14. 1941 AD Deportation of 50 Jewish men from Novy Dvor to concentration camps · Novy Dvor, Belarus
  15. 1941 AD Economic repression and gold levy on Pinsk Jews · Pinsk, Belarus
  16. 1941 AD Fine imposed on Slonim Jewish community · Slonim, Belarus
  17. 1941 AD Four thousand Jews murdered at Nesvizh · Nesvizh, Belarus
  18. 1941 AD Four thousand Novogrudok Jews killed · Navahrudak, Belarus
  19. 1941 AD German Jewish deportees reach Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  20. 1941 AD German ghettoization of Jews in Shklov and Ryzhkovichi · Shklov, Belarus
  21. 1941 AD Ghetto created in Grodno · Grodno, Belarus
  22. 1941 AD Ghetto established in Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  23. 1941 AD Ghetto set up in Brest-Litovsk · Brest (Brest-Litovsk), Belarus
  24. 1941 AD Ghettoization of Gomel Jews · Homel (Gomel), Belarus
  25. 1941 AD Gorodishche Ghetto · Haradzishcha (Gorodishche), Belarus
  26. 1941 AD Grodno Ghetto · Grodno, Belarus
  27. 1941 AD Jewish community of Koidanov murdered · Dzyarzhynsk (Koidanov), Belarus
  28. 1941 AD Jewish quarter established in Slonim · Slonim, Belarus
  29. 1941 AD Jewish resistance during Novogrudok massacre · Navahrudak, Belarus
  30. 1941 AD Jews of Novy Dvor sent to the Ostryna ghetto · Astryna, Belarus
  31. 1941 AD July 1941 Aktion in Slonim · Slonim, Belarus
  32. 1941 AD Kozlakowicze Aktion against 3,000 Jewish males · Kozlakowicze, Belarus
  33. 1941 AD Liquidation of the Shklov and Ryzhkovichi ghettos and murder of inhabitants · Shklov, Belarus
  34. 1941 AD Minsk Ghetto · Minsk, Belarus
  35. 1941 AD Minsk Jews murdered in Tuchinka Forest · Minsk, Belarus
  36. 1941 AD Murder of 8,000 Jewish men near Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  37. 1941 AD Murder of 9,000 Jews at Czepielow · Czepielow, Belarus
  38. 1941 AD Navahrudak Ghetto · Navahrudak, Belarus
  39. 1941 AD Nazi ghettoization of Vitebsk Jews · Vitebsk, Belarus
  40. 1941 AD Nazi murder of Gomel Jews · Homel (Gomel), Belarus
  41. 1941 AD One hundred Jews murdered at Lyakhovichi · Lyakhovichi, Belarus
  42. 1941 AD Pripyat Marshes massacres · Brest Region, Belarus
  43. 1941 AD Shooting of Jewish intelligentsia near Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  44. 1941 AD Slonim Jews murdered at Czepielow · Slonim, Belarus
  45. 1941 AD Slutsk massacre · Slutsk, Belarus
  46. 1941 AD Słonim Ghetto · Slonim, Belarus
  47. 1941 AD Vawkavysk Ghetto · Vawkavysk, Belarus
  48. 1941 AD Vitebsk Ghetto · Vitebsk, Belarus
  49. 1941 AD Yellow badge ordered for Jews of Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  50. 1941–1942 AD Mir Ghetto · Mir, Belarus
  51. 1941–1942 AD Mogilev Ghetto · Mogilev, Belarus
  52. 1941–1942 AD Rakaw Ghetto · Rakaw, Belarus
  53. 1941–1942 AD Svislach Ghetto (Mogilev region) · Svislach, Belarus
  54. 1941–1942 AD Zhabinka Ghetto · Zhabinka, Belarus
  55. 1942 AD 16,000 Jews murdered at Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  56. 1942 AD 25,000 Brest-Litovsk Jews murdered; Hana Ginsberg resists · Brest (Brest-Litovsk), Belarus
  57. 1942 AD About 30,000 Jews killed in Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  58. 1942 AD Armed Jewish resistance at Slonim; nearly 15,000 killed · Slonim, Belarus
  59. 1942 AD Dzyatlava Ghetto · Dzyatlava, Belarus
  60. 1942 AD Dzyatlava massacre · Dzyatlava (Zdzięcioł), Belarus
  61. 1942 AD Execution of last 150 artisans and liquidation of Pinsk ghetto · Pinsk, Belarus
  62. 1942 AD Final Aktion in the Pinsk ghetto · Pinsk, Belarus
  63. 1942 AD Germans murder 1,000 Jews at Kleck; 400 escape · Kletsk, Belarus
  64. 1942 AD Liquidation of the Slonim ghetto · Slonim, Belarus
  65. 1942 AD Massacres of Jews in Minsk, Lida and Slonim · Minsk, Belarus
  66. 1942 AD Minsk Ghetto children smothered in sandpit · Minsk, Belarus
  67. 1942 AD Murder of patients in the Jewish hospital in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  68. 1942 AD Murder of remaining Slonim Jews in December 1942 · Slonim, Belarus
  69. 1942 AD Niéswiez Jews fight Nazi attackers · Nesvizh, Belarus
  70. 1942 AD Pinsk Jews ordered into a ghetto within one day · Pinsk, Belarus
  71. 1942 AD Yeheskel Atlas partisans attack Derechin garrison · Dziarečyn (Derechin), Belarus
  72. 1942 AD Łachwa Ghetto · Lakhva, Belarus
  73. 1943 AD Deportation of Minsk Jews to Sobibor · Minsk, Belarus
  74. 1943 AD Minsk Ghetto · Minsk, Belarus
  75. 1943 AD Minsk and Lida ghettos liquidated · Minsk, Belarus
  76. 1943 AD Shooting of 1,500 Jews at Maly Trostenets · Maly Trostenets, Belarus
  77. 1943 AD Soviets retake Smolensk; Belorussian ghettos liquidated · Belarus
  78. 1943 AD Summer 1943 shootings and van gassings in Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  79. 1948 AD Murder of Solomon Mikhoels in Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  80. 1959 AD Closure of the Great Synagogue of Minsk · Minsk, Belarus
  81. 1959 AD Karlin cemetery converted into a park · Pinsk, Belarus
  82. 1963 AD Police break up Gomel minyan · Homel (Gomel), Belarus
  83. 1964 AD Destruction of Minsk's remaining small synagogue · Minsk, Belarus
  84. 1966 AD Last Pinsk prayerhouse closed by police · Pinsk, Belarus

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