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Homjel

Gomel Region, Belarus
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Homjel is a city in Belarus. The town is the usa's 2d biggest with 526 872 inhabitants 2014. Homjel is placed along the river Sozj in Homjel voblasts southeast of the country, and is the place of business of Homjel voblasts. There is some thing doubtful when Homjel changed into formed. The town is stated in chronicles from the beginning of the 12th century, and 1142 is regularly regarded because the year of the metropolis's founding. In 1854, Homjel turned into merged with the neighboring town of Bjelitsa on the alternative aspect of Sojj, and Bjelitsa is now considered one of Homjel's 4 districts.

In the 1800s, the Jewish population of the metropolis changed into over half the metropolis's overall population, and had 24 synagogues. At the start of World War II , there have been about fifty thousand Jews dwelling in Homjel, of a complete populace of approx. 150,000. Some Jews got here to safety in the early tiers of the struggle, however folks that were left were put in ghettos with the aid of the Nazis and have become victims of the Holocaust.

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