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The first reference to a Jewish community in Snów dates from the 16th century. With the outbreak of World War II Snów was annexed to the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and many people fleeing the Germans came to Snów. The number of Jews totalled about 540 just before the Germans occupied it on June 28, 1941. The Germans immediately started killing individual Jews, but in a mass murder on June 17, 1942 about 500 Jews from Snów were killed and about three days later another 88. Snów was liberated by the Red Army in July 1944.