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was formally established within the city by German authorities, and all Jews living within the town – the amount of which had by then swollen to over 3,000 people – were forcibly resettled within it. It was finally liquidated on 13 August 1942 – in the final days before its liquidation, a
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government and various Jewish groups over the past half century. On the eve of World War II, some 2,400 Jews lived in Mir, about half of the town's population. All of them, except about 150-300 escapees, were murdered by the
Germans in 1941. One of the escapees, Elia Miranski, reported in an
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interview given in 2013 that entire neighborhoods had been destroyed by the
Germans and the town today is significantly smaller than it was; outlines of the former neighborhood streets can be seen on Google Earth to the northeast of the castle along the river.
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practically dominated the fairs as horse traders, and numerous Roma community thrived in the town until 1939. The fairs collapsed in 1941, when Nazi
Germany invaded the Belorussian Soviet Republic and murdered the Roma people of Mir.
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learning or Roma horse trade. Home to about 2,500 people, virtually none of whom are descended from the once thriving Jewish and Roma communities, its primary attraction is the Mir Castle as well as memorials erected by the
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450:, there was little time to escape, and Jews who had fled nearby settlements and western Poland had accumulated in Mir alongside the existing Jewish community. Three months after the occupation began,
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in 1939, when the invading communist Soviet Red Army and security forces pressured the school to close and relocate to then still free
Lithuania. (Current incarnations of the yeshiva are located in
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feast days, first held on May 9 and the second fair on
December 6 each year. Both fairs lasted four weeks each and were very popular and well known throughout the country until 1939.
694:"Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа"
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366:). The retreating Russians, withdrawing east, abandoned the town and destroyed the castle with gunpowder. During the Middle Ages it was first located in the
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the Rus' rule diminished and since 1242 Mir belonged to the expanding and dynamic
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which operated there intermittently from 1815 until the fall of
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Mir was the site of two very famous horse fairs associated with
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928:"Oral history interview with Elia Miranski and Genia Miranski"
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resistance group of around 80 people, under the leadership of
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Mir village was founded sometime prior to 1345. It is home to
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was routed by the invading
Imperial Russian army corps under
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876:[About 650 Jews died in Mir Castle during the war].
847:[About 650 Jews died in Mir Castle during the war].
818:[About 650 Jews died in Mir Castle during the war].
727:[About 650 Jews died in Mir Castle during the war].
635:"К вопросу о первом упоминании Мира в письменных источниках"
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874:"В Мирском замке во время войны погибло около 650 евреев"
845:"В Мирском замке во время войны погибло около 650 евреев"
816:"В Мирском замке во время войны погибло около 650 евреев"
725:"В Мирском замке во время войны погибло около 650 евреев"
564:(1926–2022), American-Belarusian historian and publicist
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family. It was destroyed by the
Swedish forces in 1655 (
474:until 1991, when it became part of the independent
633:Alieh Luckievič, edited by A. Januškievič (2014).
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497:history is that it was the original home of the
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785:"Where does reality end and mysticism begin?"
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430:From 27 June 1941 until 7 July 1944, Mir was
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