Damachava
{{Short description|Urban-type settlement in Brest Region, Belarus}}
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Damachava ({{langx|be|Дамачава|Damačava}}; {{langx|ru|Домачево|Domachevo}}; {{langx|pl|Domaczewo}}) is an urban-type settlement in Brest District, Brest Region, Belarus.[http://www.domachevo.com/ Domachevo website] {{in lang|ru}}[http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_II/111 "Domaczewo"] in an 1881 Polish geographical dictionary As of 2025, it has a population of 1,136.
History
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{{See also|The Holocaust in Brest District|Damachava Ghetto}}
Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Damachava was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship. In 1795, Damachava was acquired by the Russian Empire as a result of the Third Partition of Poland.
From 1921 until 1939, Damachava (Domaczewo) was part of the Second Polish Republic. In September 1939, Damachava was occupied by the Red Army and, on 14 November 1939, incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR.
From 21 June 1941 until 23 July 1944, Damachava was occupied by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Generalbezirk Wolhynien-Podolien of Reichskommissariat Ukraine.
The majority of the town inhabitants were Jewish before World War II.{{Cite web |title=המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם |url=http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=232#!prettyPhoto |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=yadvashem.org}} From November 1941, the Jews were kept imprisoned in a ghetto.{{Cite web|url=http://moreshet.pl/he/node/400|title=Moreshet.pl}} In September 1942 they were murdered in a mass execution.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/domaczewo/|title = Domaczewo | Virtual Shtetl}}
Notable people
- Anthony Sawoniuk (1921–2005), a resident of Damachava who fled after murdering Jews during the Holocaust. Later working as a ticket collector in Britain, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 18 Jews in the United Kingdom's only war crimes trial.The Ticket Collector from Belarus - "An extraordinary and true story of the Holocaust and Britain' only war crimes trial - by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson - 2021 - Simon & Schuster (publishers)
References
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External links
- {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|1942498|Damachava, Belarus}}
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Category:Urban-type settlements in Belarus
Category:Populated places in Brest region
Category:Holocaust locations in Poland
Category:Historic Jewish communities in Belarus
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