Janavičy ( be, Я́навічы ''Janavičy'', russian: Яновичи ''Yanovichi'', pl, Janowicze) is a town in the

Vitebsk District Vitebsk District ( be, Віцебскі раён, russian: Витебский район, Vitebsk Raion) is a district of Belarus in Vitebsk Region. The administrative center of the district is the city of Vitebsk, administratively separated from ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. It is located about 36 kilometers east of

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...

. The population is 929 inhabitants (2009).

History

In 1939, Janavičy had 709 Jewish residents (34.8% of the total population). On August 15, 1941, 149 Jews from the village were shot in the nearby village of Valki. On September 10, 1941 a ghetto of Jews in the village was liquidated and the inhabitants shot in the nearby village of Zaitsevo.

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* {{Authority control Urban-type settlements in Belarus Populated places in Vitebsk Region Vitebsk Voivodeship Vitebsky Uyezd Jewish Belarusian history Holocaust locations in Belarus