Paretscha

Paretschtscha ( Belarusian Парэчча , Polish Porzecze , Lithuanian Pariečė ) is a place northeast of Hrodna in the Hrodsenskaja Woblasz in the Hrodna district in western Belarus and lies on the border with Lithuania . Since the beginning of the 20th century there has been a Catholic church, an Orthodox church built in 1901 and a cemetery where the victims of the First World War were buried. Porzecze belonged to Poland between the First and Second World Wars .

literature

• Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom V - Województwo Białostockie, Główny Urząd Statystyczny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Warszawa 1924.
• Porzecze , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 611

Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '  N , 24 ° 7'  E