Lakhva (also Lachva and Lachwa; Belarusian and Russian: Лахва, Polish: Łachwa; Yiddish: לאַכװע, romanized: Lakhve) is a village in Luninets District, Brest Region, Belarus.

As such, Lakhva has, at various points in its history, been under Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Soviet, German, and Belarusian control.

The estate was held jointly by the Radziwiłłs and the Kiszkas, two powerful and significant Szlachta (noble) families of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Prince Radziwiłł apparently preferred to deal with the administration in Nowogródek, leading to protracted legal proceedings by the authorities in Pinsk.

Russian dominion over the area lasted until the end of the First World War, when the region was briefly ceded to the German Empire under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Located only 18 kilometres from the boundary of the Soviet Union,[6] the region was policed by the Polish Border Protection Corps.

Jewish settlement in Lakhva commenced in the latter half of the 17th century,[2][7] reflecting an eastward migration of Jews during that period.

[4] Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and German troops occupied Lakhva on July 8, 1941, two weeks after the start of Operation Barbarossa.

[9] On April 1, 1942, the town's Jews were forcibly moved into a ghetto consisting of two streets and 45 houses, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.