Zembin

Zembin (Belarusian: Зембін;[1] Russian: Зембин; Polish: Ziembin) is an agrotown in Barysaw District, Minsk Region, Belarus.

[1] According to the research of the 19th century, Zembin is the oldest settlement among the adjacent villages, though the exact date of its foundation is unknown.

Battles during the Great Northern War did not touch the township, though a long dislocation of a Moscow host headed by A. Menshikov here resulted in utter ruin.

The then its owner Khreptovich returned the settlement the status of a township and invited to settle all free people and provided favourable conditions for trading.

As a result of the Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793) Zembin became a part of the Russian Empire in Borisovsky Uyezd.

In 1919 Zembin was included into the BSSR, in 1927 lost the district center status, which it had received three years earlier.

In July 1941 Nazis set up Zembin ghetto, situated next to Jewish cemetery in The Workers' and Peasants' Street (now Izzy Kharik).

In 1967 the relatives of the dead enclosed the place of execution with a concrete fence and set up a commemorative plaque.

The Church of St Michael the Archangel (1908)
The monument at the site of shooting the prisoners of Zembin ghetto