The event occurred during the opening stages of the Polish-Soviet War, after the Polish Army had captured Pinsk. After the failure of the revolution, the authorities arrested Jewish revolutionaries and outlawed much Jewish organizational activity. He was a leader of the National Polish Department of America, a major organization of Polish-American expats.

History Direct link for this paragraph Go back to index Go back to index. [12], Despite attempts of the Polish authorities to suppress the story, accounts of the incident in the international press caused a scandal which would have strong repercussions abroad.

Czerniakiewicz, Andrzej (2004). Prominent Zionist and Israeli figures such as Chaim Weizmann and Golda Meir hailed from the Pinsk region. This town was first mentioned in the Ipatiev writing back in 1097.

On December 4th 1939, Pinsk was formed as its own district center. The Pinsk ghetto was established on 1 May 1942, and more than 3,600 of its some 10,000 inhabitants worked outside of the ghetto. Pinsk was really in its prime in the 19th century where it celebrated becoming a trade and crafts center of the region with powerful factories located within. Aliaksandr Aliaksandrawicz Skirmunt 1830-1909 z Pareczcza.jpg 982 × 1,249; 666 KB. and eds., Pinsk (Stanford, Calif., 2006)]; vol.

Most notable was 5 April 1919, when the Polish army summarily executed, as suspected Communists, 35 young Pinsk Jews attending a public meeting to consider how to allocate Passover aid. In 1793, Pinsk lands were annexed to the Russian Empire and became a part of the Minsk governorship. Britain and the Origins of the New Europe, 1914-1918. THE HISTORY OF PINSK CITY. [1][4][8] Pinsk is a city of regional subordination in the center of Pinsk district of the Brest region. From the sixteenth century to the twentieth, the leading Jewish citizens of Pinsk were large-scale merchants who imported finished goods, tools, colonial goods, spices, and fruit from the west and exported skins, furs, wax, tallow, salt, grain, and, especially, lumber and forest products to the west. Karlin, home to Aharon the Great (1736–1772) and his successor Shelomoh, was one of the first centers of Hasidism. The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk in April 1919 by the Polish Army.

Copyright © 2012 - 2020 | The Minsk Herald, Brief History of the National Currency of Belarus, Driving in Belarus: basic rules and information. Although not an eyewitness, Fronczak accepted Luczynski's claims that the aid distribution meeting was actually a Bolshevik conspiracy to obtain arms and destroy the small Polish garrison in Pinsk, and he himself claimed to have heard shots being fired from the Jewish meeting hall when Polish troops approached. By the eve of World War II, Pinsk’s 28,000 Jews constituted some 70 percent of the city’s population, making it a cultural and social microcosm of the full range of Eastern Europe Jewish life. The name is given due to the location on the river Pina, left tributary of Pripyat. 2. Jewish day laborers were vital to transport and the river trade. In the nineteenth century, Jewish industrialists such as the Levin-Luria family established mechanized factories and their workers formed a Jewish proletariat that by the early twentieth century numbered in the thousands. In: Herbert Arthur Strauss, ed.

The mission, led by American diplomat Henry Morgenthau, Sr., published the Morgenthau Report on October 3, 1919. However, except for the Muscovite occupation of July 1660—when many Jews were tortured and killed, and the synagogue and numerous Jewish homes were destroyed and plundered—in each emergency the majority of Jews managed to escape the city ahead of the main fighting and preserve a fair portion of their property.