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{{Short description|Town in Grodno Region, Belarus}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name=Svislach
|native_name = {{lang|be|Свіслач}}
|nickname =
|settlement_type = [[List of cities and largest towns in Belarus|Town]]
|image_skyline =Svislach2.JPG
|image_skyline = Svislach2.JPG
|image_size =
|image_size =
|image_caption =Raion Administration Building
|image_caption = District Administration Building
|image_flag = Flag of Śvisłač.svg
|image_shieldimage_flag = BIAFlag Świsłoczof COAŚvisłač.svg
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name1=[[Grodno Region]]
|subdivision_name = [[Belarus]]
|subdivision_type2=[[Raion]]
|subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]]
|subdivision_name2=[[Svislach district]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Grodno Region]]
|leader_title =
|subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Belarus|District]]
|leader_name =
|subdivision_name2 = [[Svislach District]]
|established_title = Mentioned
|leader_title =
|established_date = 1256
|area_magnitudeleader_name = =
|established_title = First mentioned
|area_total_km2 = 4,28
|established_date = 1256
|area_land_km2 =
|area_water_km2 area_magnitude =
|population_as_ofarea_total_km2 = 20094.28
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|area_water_km2 =
|population_total = 6,886
|population_as_of = 2024
|population_metro =
|population_footnotes = <ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|title=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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|archive-date=2 April 2024|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=11 May 2024}}</ref>
|population_density_km2 =
|population_note =
|timezone = [[Eastern European Time|EET]]
|population_total = 6,008
|utc_offset = +2
|population_metro =
|timezone_DST = [[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]
|population_density_km2 =
|utc_offset_DST = +3
|timezone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]]
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|elevation_m utc_offset = +3
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|postal_code_type = Postal code
|elevation_m =
|postal_code = 231960-231969
|postal_code_type = Postal code
|area_code = +375 1513
|postal_code = 231960-231969
|blank_name = License plate
|blank_infoarea_code = +375 = 41513
|blank_name = License plate
|website =
|footnotes blank_info = 4
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}}
 
'''Svislach'''<!--See WP:BELARUSIANNAMES--> or '''ŚvislačSvisloch''' ({{lang-be|Свiслач|Svislač}},{{efn|[[Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script|Official transliteration]]}} {{IPA-be|ˈɕvislatʃ|pronIPA|Be-ŚvisłačСвiслач.oggoga}}; {{lang-ru|Свислочь|Svisloch}}; {{lang-pl|Świsłocz}}; {{lang-yi|סיסלעוויטש}}; {{lang-lt|Svisločius}}) is a [[town]] in the South-West of [[Grodno Region]], [[Belarus]],.<ref anname="pop"/> It serves as the administrative center of [[Svislach District]].<ref name="pop"/> It is connected with the town [[SvislachVawkavysk]] districtby a railroad branch and with [[Grodno]] city by a highway. As of 2024, it has a population of 6,008.<ref name="pop"/>
 
It is connected with [[Vaŭkavysk]] by a railroad branch and with [[Grodno]] by a highway. International phone number prefix: 375-15-13.
 
==History==
Within the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], Svislach was part of [[Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)|Nowogródek Voivodeship]]. In 1795, Svislach was acquired by the [[Russian Empire]] in the course of the [[Third Partition of Poland]].
 
In 1927, Rabbi [[Chaim Yaakov Mishkinsky]], whose wife [[Chaya Mishinsky|Chaya]] was the granddaughter of Rabbi [[Naftali Hertz Halperin]] of Bialystok, was appointed the rabbi of Svislach.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} He led the community until the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] entered in November 1942 murdering the entire Jewish community. Prior to the war, Rabbi Mishkinsky sent his sons {{Interlanguage link multi|Yitzchak Ivry|he|3=יצחק עברי|lt=Yitzchak}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Moshe Mishkinsky|he|3=משה מישקינסקי|lt=Moshe}} to Israel (Palestine). Rabbi Mishkinsky's great-granddaughter, [[Batya Friedman]], serves as rebbetzin of Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue, London. His great-grandson is Rabbi [[Yochanan Ivry]] of Congregation Toras Emes of [[Staten Island, New York]].
 
Svislach was part of the [[Second Polish Republic]] from 1921 until 1939. In September 1939, Svislach was occupied by the [[Red Army]] and, on 14 November 1939, incorporated into the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Byelorussian SSR]]. In 1939, there were around 3,000 Jews living in Svislach, along with refugees from western Poland who had settled there after the invasion of Poland. From June 1941 until 17 July 1944, Svislach was [[German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II|occupied by Nazi Germany]] and administered as a part of [[Bezirk Bialystok]]. In July 1941, a ghetto was established in the old Jewish neighbourhood, in the northwest of Svislach. In that area, Jews were also gathered from the village of Golobudy. It was an open ghetto, and the western border of the ghetto's territory ran near the Svislach River. On November 2, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated when the Jews were sent by train to the [[Vawkavysk]] transit camp where many massacres occurred. The remaining Jews, mostly elderly and sick, were killed in the Visnik Forest, just outside Svislach.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yahadmap.org/#village/svisloch-grodno-belarus.471 |title = YAHAD - IN UNUM}}</ref>
 
==Notable people==
Svislach was part of the [[Second Polish Republic]] from 1921 until 1939. In September 1939, Svislach was occupied by the [[Red Army]] and, on 14 November 1939, incorporated into the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Byelorussian SSR]]. In 1939, there were around 3,000 Jews living in Svislach, along with refugees from western Poland who had settled there after the invasion of Poland. From June 1941 until 17 July 1944, Svislach was [[German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II|occupied by Nazi Germany]] and administered as a part of [[Bezirk Bialystok]]. In July 1941, a ghetto was established in the old Jewish neighbourhood, in the northwest of Svislach. In that area, Jews were also gathered from the village of Golobudy. It was an open ghetto, and the western border of the ghetto's territory ran near the Svislach River. On November 2, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated when the Jews were sent by train to the [[Vawkavysk]] transit camp where many massacres occurred. The remaining Jews, mostly elderly and sick, were killed in the Visnik Forest, just outside Svislach.<ref>http://yahadmap.org/#village/svisloch-grodno-belarus.471</ref>
*[[Aharon Kotler]] (1892–1962), rabbi
*[[Samuel Belkin]] (1911–1976), rabbi
*[[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis (Losz)]] (1909–1981), Canadian lawyer and federal [[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]] leader<ref>{{cite book
| last = Smith
| first = Cameron
| author-link =
| title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family
| publisher = Summerhill Press
| year = 1989
| location = [[Toronto]]
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/unfinishedjourne00smit/page/9 9–19, 93]
| url = https://archive.org/details/unfinishedjourne00smit/page/9
| doi =
| id =
| isbn = 0-929091-04-3
| url-access = registration
}}</ref>
 
==ResidentsNotes==
{{notelist}}
Notable residents include:
* Rabbi [[Aharon Kotler]]
* Rabbi [[Samuel Belkin]]
* [[David Lewis (politician)|David Lewis (Losz)]], [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[Rhodes Scholar]] and federal [[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]] leader.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Smith
| first = Cameron
| author-link =
| title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family
| publisher = Summerhill Press
| year = 1989
| location = [[Toronto]]
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/unfinishedjourne00smit/page/9 9–19, 93]
| url = https://archive.org/details/unfinishedjourne00smit/page/9
| doi =
| id =
| isbn = 0-929091-04-3
| url-access = registration
}}</ref>
 
==References and notes==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
{{Commons category|Svislač|Svislach}}
* [http://radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?lang=en&miesta_id1=hrsvsvis Photos on Radzima.org]
{{Belarus-stub}}
{{Coord|53|02|N|24|06|E|region:BY_type:city|display=title}}
 
{{Grodno Region}}
{{Authority control}}
 
[[Category:Towns in Belarus]]
[[Category:Populated places in Grodno Region]]
[[Category:Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)]]
[[Category:Volkovyssky Uyezd]]
[[Category:Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)]]
[[Category:Belastok Region]]
[[Category:Holocaust locations in Poland]]
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