Haradzishcha, Baranavichy District

Haradzishcha (Belarusian: Гарадзішча, romanized: Haradzišča;[2] Russian: Городище, romanized: Gorodishche) is an urban-type settlement in Baranavichy District, Brest Region, in west-central Belarus.

[1] It was a private town, administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[5] Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, Horodyszcze was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944.

[6] The Germans massacred a further 35 and 100 Jews in May and August 1942, respectively, and 100 Romani people in November 1942.

[6] In 1944, the settlement was re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945.

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