Chausy

Chaussy, Chavusy or Chausy is a city within the jap Belarusian voblast of Mogilev. Chavusy serves as an workplace of Chavusy Raion. As of 2009, its population was 10,692. It once changed into a huge Jewish shtetl, which dated from the seventeenth century, as seems from a charter granted to the Jews January eleven, 1667, by way of Michał Kazimierz Pac, castellan of Wilno, and showed through King Augustus III of Poland. March nine, 1739. In 1780, on the time of a go to of Catherine II, there was a Jewish populace of 355, in 1,057; and the city possessed one synagogue.

In 1803 the Jewish population changed into 453, in 1,185; in 1870 it changed into 2,433, in 4,167; and in 1897, 2,775, in approximately 6,000. Some of the Jewish artisans had been hired inside the tanneries and in silk and woolen factories. The Jewish population within the district of Chaussy in 1897 became 7,444, or eight.Forty two according to cent of the entire population. Chaussy became occupied all through World War II via the Germans beginning in July 1941.