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Lachowicze
Lyakhovich
Lachowicze was a miasteczko (small city) and gmina town, seat of council office of Lachowicze with the dependencies - Koniunchy, Mysloboje, Paszkowce, and Zubielewicze, located not far to the north of the great Pripet Marshes, on the axis between Warszawa and Mockba, through Brest-Litovsk, Minsk and Smolensk.
The railway line was Luniniec-Baranoweize

By the first quarter of the 17th century, Jews were living in Lachowicze.
According to a decision of the Lithuanian Council of 1623, the community was subordinated to the kahal of Pinsk, 100 kilometers to the south.
From 1623 to 1764, when the Council ceased to exist, Jews in the area enjoyed autonomy under the Jewish “Council of the Realm of Lithuania”.

In 1795, Lachowicze was passed from Poland to Russia.

In the 19th century, the Jews in and around Lachowicze thought of themselves as “Litvaks” (Lithuanians), although from a formal point of view, they had been Poles throughout the 18th century and were Russians in the 19th century.
The reason the residents of Lachowicze thought of themselves as Litvaks went back to days when Jews in the area enjoyed a dgree of autonomy under the Jewish “Council of the Realm of Lithuania”.
This affiliation to Lithuania outlasted the truncation of the Grand Duchy, the successive partitions of Poland from 1772 onwards and the consequent expansion of the “Pale of Settlement”, which was the area in Imperial Russia within which Jewish settlement was legal.
There were many synagogues in Lachowicze prior to the World Wars.
The Kalter and Schneidershe (Tailor) Shuls were destroyed in World War I, and not rebuilt.
The Schustershe (Shoemakers’) Shul was destroyed in World War I and rebuilt.
The Mikvah survived the first World War, but was destroyed in World War II.
The Jewish cemetery was at the intersection of Sidowsk gast (street) and Tayta gast.
There was a Yeshiva in Lachowicze prior to the Holocaust.

In 1812, Lyakhovichi Lachowicze was traversed by Napoleon’s armies on their vain march to Mockba.

During Wrold War I, Lachowicze was the scene of heaving fighting between Russia and Germany.

In 1921,Lachowicze reverted to Poland.

In 1945, Lachowicze was ceded to the USSR.