Tsyelyakhany
Tsyelyakhany or Telekhany (Belarusian: Целяханы, romanized: Cieliachany; Russian: Телеханы) is an urban-type settlement in Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is situated in the historical region of Polesia by the Oginski Canal. As of 2024, it has a population of 3,701.
History
Before 1939 it was part of the Interwar Poland, the seat of Gmina Telechany, Powiat Kosówski, Polesie Voivodship.
During World War II, the Jewish community was massacred by a cavalry detachment of SS in August 1941, according to the memoirs of Bogdan Mielnik, a Polish resident of Telekhany.
Notes
- ^ "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2010). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Брэсцкая вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 148. ISBN 978-985-458-198-9.
- ^ Михаил Ринский, СУДЬБА МЕСТЕЧКА ТЕЛЕХАНЫ (retrieved May 17, 2022), History of the town (in Russian)
- ^ "Telechany - Virtual Shtetl". www.sztetl.org.pl. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15.
- ^ Bogdan Mielnik, Moje Telechany, Section 13 (retrieved May 17, 2022)
- ^ "Yahad - in Unum".
External links
- Photos on Globus.tut.by (text in Russian)
- Photos on Radzima.org
- Documents about Jewish inhabitants of Telekhany (mostly English)
- Genealogy of the Ajzenberg/Eisenberg/Eizenberg family of Telechan
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