Zabinka

Although Jews obtained official permission to settle in Żabinka only in 1903, when a railway line was constructed in the area, they lin fact had lived there earlier. In 1921, after the area was incorporated into the Polish state, the 445 local Jews comprised 73 percent of the total population. In the interwar period Zionist groups were active in the town; a library and a Hebrew kindergarten were opened in Żabinka. On the eve of the war Żabinka's 820 Jews constituted about 58 percent of the total population. In September 1939, when Poland was divided up between Germany and the USSR, the town was annexed to Soviet Belorussia.

Żabinka was occupied by German troops on June 23, 1941. In the fall of that year a ghetto was established there. In the summer of 1942 the Jews in the ghetto were forced to hand over to the Germans all of their valuables. Most of the ghetto's inmates were murdered in August – September 1942, when they were taken in groups to Wysokie Litewskie and to Bronna Góra and shot there. According to Soviet reports, 339 Jews were taken to Małorita, where they were shot to death together with the local Jews. The last group of Żabinka Jews was killed in the vicinity of the town in October 1942.

Żabinka was liberated by the Red Army on July 21, 1944.