It is the only town in Belarus where the Polish population, consisting of the majority, is allowed to use bilingual street signs.

In September 1939, Sapotskin was occupied by the Red Army and, on 14 November 1939, incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR.

The Germans then asked local Poles to identify Jewish collaborators with the Soviet occupation.

The Poles gave them a long list, some of whom had nothing to do with the Soviet regime, including the local rabbi and other community leaders, and those Jews were executed.

Only a few Sapotskin Jews survived the Holocaust, including those protected by the Falejczyk and Bykowski families who were later named by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.