Klimavichy

Klimavichy is a metropolis in the eastern Belarusian Mahilyow Voblast. Klimavichy is placed 124 km east of Mahilyow on the bank of Kalinica River and is the place of work of the Klimavichy Raion considering the fact that 1924. As of 2009, its population was 17,064. First references in historic documents are dated by means of 1581 on the subject of Mścisław Voivodship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It become granted town popularity in 1777, and a Coat of Arms in 1781. According to the census of 1897, the metropolis had four,714 inhabitants. 50.2 percent were Orthodox, forty seven.Nine percentage Jews and 1.Five percentage Catholics.

It changed into occupied with the aid of Nazi Germany at some stage in World War II on August 10, 1941 and liberated in October 1943. In January 1939, there were 1,693 Jews in the village. There changed into a Yiddish faculty till 1938. The majority of the Jews had been traders. There had been 4 executions of Jews in Klimovichi. At the quit of August 1941, 13 Jews had been arrested, taken to the Jewish cemetery so that it will dig a pit. They were shot there afterwards. The 2nd execution passed off on November 6, 1941.