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Śvisłač (other)
Svislach or Śvislač, is the administrative center of Svislach Raion, Grodno Region, Belarus. Svislach or Śvislač, may also refer to the following places in Belarus: * Svislach, Pukhavichy District, an urban-type settlement in Minsk Region, Belarus * Svislach, Mogilev Region, an agrotown in Mogilev Region, Belarus *Svislach (Berezina) The Svislach (, ) or Svisloch () is a river in Belarus. A right-bank tributary of the river Berezina, the Svislach is long, and has a drainage basin of .Svislach (Neman), a river in western Belarus, a tributary of Neman {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svislach
Svislach or Svisloch is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Svislach District. It is connected with the town Vawkavysk by a railroad branch and with Grodno city by a highway. As of 2025, it has a population of 5,851. History Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Svislach was part of 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 was the granddaughter of Rabbi Naftali Hertz Halperin of Bialystok, was appointed the rabbi of Svislach. He led the community until the Nazis entered in November 1942 murdering the entire Jewish community. Prior to the war, Rabbi Mishkinsky sent his sons and to Israel (Palestine). Rabbi Mishkinsky's great-grandson, Yochanan Chaim Ivry, serves as rabbi of Toras Emes, Staten Island, NY and his great-granddaughter, Batya Yocheved Friedman serves as one of the rebbetzins in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svislach (Berezina)
The Svislach (, ) or Svisloch () is a river in Belarus. A right-bank tributary of the river Berezina, the Svislach is long, and has a drainage basin of .Свислочь (река, приток р. Березины) Its name is derived from the root -''visl''- 'flowing,' of Indo-European origin (compare ).E.M. Pospelov, ''Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira'' (Moscow, 1998), p. 372. The Svislach flows through |