Lachwa
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ' N , 27 ° 6' E
Lachwa ( Belarusian Лахва , Russian Лахва , Polish Łachwa , Hebrew לחווא, Yiddish לאַכװע) is a village in the Luninez district in the Republic of Belarus in the Breszkaja Woblasz with around 2100 inhabitants. The village is located in the south of the country in the Polesia region east of the city of Pinsk .
Lachwa collection camp
The area used as an SS assembly camp with the code name Ghetto Lachwa from 1941 to 1945 was the site of what was probably the first massive resistance of the captured Jewish population to their murder on September 3, 1942. The end of the war saw 90 of those involved in the Lachwa uprising .
literature
- Michaeli, Lichstein, Morawczik, Sklar (eds.): Rishonim la-mered: Lachwa [First Ghetto to Revolt: Lachwa.] Tel Aviv: Entsyklopedyah shel Galuyot, 1957.
- Kopel Kolpanitzky, Nigzar le-Hayyim: Mered Geto Lachwa [Sentenced to Life: The Lachwa Ghetto Uprising] (Israel: Ministry of Defense, 1999).
Web links
- radzima.org: The village of Lachwa
- Yitzhak Rochzyn, leader of the Lachwa ghetto underground. At The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
Commons : Lachwa - album with pictures, videos and audio files
