Sharkawshchyna, Vitebsk Region, Belarus
🇧🇾 Sharkawshchyna is a town in Vitebsk Region of Belarus and the centre of Sharkawshchyna District.
History Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Sharkawshchyna was part of Vilnius Voivodeship. In 1793, the town was acquired by the Russian Empire as a result of the Second Partition of Poland.
From 1921 until 1939, Sharkawshchyna was part of the Second Polish Republic. In September 1939, Sharkawshchyna was occupied by the Red Army and, on 14 November 1939, incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR.
From 30 June 1941 until 1 July 1944, Sharkawshchyna was occupied by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Generalbezirk Weißruthenien of Reichskommissariat Ostland. In October 1941, 1,900 Jews of the town and surroundings were kept imprisoned in a ghetto. Many died of disease and starvation. On July 17, 1942, 1200 Jews were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an einsatzgruppen, some managed to escape when the Judenrat instructed them to run through the lines of the police coming at them. Several days later, most of the survivors, even though they knew their ultimate fate, joined the Jews of the nearby ghetto at Glebokie. This was used by several Holocaust researchers from the "Israel school" of holocaust research, as a study case showing the futility of Jewish resistance in those years.
Europe/Minsk/Vitebsk
Sharkawshchyna has a population of over 6,900 people. Sharkawshchyna also forms the centre of the wider Sharkawshchyna District which has a population of over 13,362 people. It is also a part of the larger Vitebsk Region. Sharkawshchyna is situated near Vitebsk.
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Sharkawshchyna has links with:
🇱🇻 Daugavpils, Latvia🇩🇰 Faaborg-Midtfyn 55.227
Locations Near: Sharkawshchyna 27.4667,55.3667
🇱🇻 Daugavpils 26.542,55.89 d: 82.2
🇱🇻 Rēzekne 27.34,56.511 d: 127.4
🇧🇾 Navapolatsk 28.65,55.533 d: 76.9
🇧🇾 Novopolotsk 28.66,55.532 d: 77.5
🇧🇾 Polatsk 28.8,55.483 d: 85.1
🇧🇾 Polotsk 28.8,55.483 d: 85.1
🇧🇾 Smalyavichy 28.067,54.1 d: 146
🇧🇾 Partyzanski 27.51,53.951 d: 157.4
Antipodal to: Sharkawshchyna -152.533,-55.367
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15801.1
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15766.6
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15186.2
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15108.3
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11661.7
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11546.5
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11529.4
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11527.4