Telekhany
Telekhany is an urban settlement in Ivatsevichy Raion of the Brest Region in Belarus. Name spelling variants: Belarusian: Целяханы: Celjahany,Tsseljahany, sometimes Tselyakhani, Celjachani; Polish: Telechany; Russian: Телеханы: Telekhany, Telehany, Yiddish: טעלעכאן: Telekhan, Telechan, Telechon; other: Telekhani, Telekani.
Telekhany has about 4,500 inhabitants.[1]
It is situated in the Polesia region by the Oginski Canal.[2]
History
Before 1939 it was part of the Interwar Poland, the seat of Gmina Telechany, Powiat Kosówski, Polesie Voivodship.[3]
During World War II, the Jewish community was massacred by a cavalry detachment of SS in August 1941, according to the memoirs of Bogdan Mielnik, a Polish resident of Telekhany.[4][2][3][5]
Notable residents
- George Koval an American, a Soviet spy infiltrating the Manhattan Project
Notes
- Ивацевичский районный исполнительный комитет
- Михаил Ринский, СУДЬБА МЕСТЕЧКА ТЕЛЕХАНЫ (retrieved May 17, 2022), History of the town (in Russian)
- "Telechany - Virtual Shtetl". www.sztetl.org.pl. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15.
- Bogdan Mielnik, Moje Telechany, Section 13 (retrieved May 17, 2022)
- "Yahad - in Unum".
External links
- Photos on Globus.tut.by (text in Russian)
- Photos on Radzima.org
- Documents about Jewish inhabitants of Telekhany (mostly English)
- Genealogy of the Ajzenberg/Eisenberg/Eizenberg family of Telechan
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