Gródek [ˈɡrudɛk] (Belarusian: Гарадок) is a village in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Gródek passed successively into the hands of the Pac, Sapieha and Radziwiłł families.

At the end of the 18th century, it was a magnate town of the Zabłudów county in the Grodno district of the Trakai voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

[5] According to the General Census of 1921, it was inhabited by 2,081 people, of whom 45 were Roman Catholic, 512 Orthodox, 2 Evangelical and 1,508 Jews.

The inventory from 1677 mentioned, among other things, a "Jewish school square", so a synagogue already existed at that time.

In total, there were 5 synagogues in Gródek, including 1 brick one: "Ohel Jakoowa", "Altfrankische", "Habanim", "Lunski Bet Midrasz", the Piaskowa synagogue and 2 Hasidic prayer houses: Klaus Kobrynski and Klaus Slonimski.

[9] About 2,500 Jews were sent to the ghetto, who worked, among other things, on road construction and unloading and loading wagons at the nearby railway station in Waliły.