Seliba

Seliba was established as a Jewish agricultural settlement in the second half of the 19th century. During the civil war in 1918-1921 Polish soldiers abused local Jews, killed 17 of them, and looted Jewish property. During the early Soviet period most local Jews worked in agriculture. In 1930 Seliba became a kolkhoz with 11 Jewish families. A Yiddish elementary school operated in Seliba. Seliba was occupied by the Germans in July, 1941. Immediately after the beginning of the occupation about ten Jewish young men were murdered; later, six young Jewish women were murdered after being sexually abused. Most of Seliba's Jews were murdered in Bogushevichi, along with the Jews from there, in December 1941. The Red Army liberated Seliba in June 1944.