Skidel
Encyclopedia
Skidal is a Belarus
ian town that is located 31 kilometers from Grodno.
due to the high volume of Jewish people living there before the Holocaust. During the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)
the village, then part of the Second Polish Republic
, was the site of one of the largest communist revolts against the Polish government; the event is sometimes referred to as the 'Skidal uprising'. The Grodno headquarters of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
was located in Skidal until the collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1991.
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian town that is located 31 kilometers from Grodno.
Overview
The village is sometimes referred to as a shtetlShtetl
A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe until The Holocaust. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania...
due to the high volume of Jewish people living there before the Holocaust. During the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)
Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II. Sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east...
the village, then part of the Second Polish Republic
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland refers to Poland between the two world wars; a period in Polish history in which Poland was restored as an independent state. Officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Commonwealth of Poland , the Polish state was...
, was the site of one of the largest communist revolts against the Polish government; the event is sometimes referred to as the 'Skidal uprising'. The Grodno headquarters of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...
was located in Skidal until the collapse of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in 1991.