Pabradė Explained

Pabradė
Other Name:Podbrodzie
Settlement Type:City
Pushpin Map:Lithuania
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Pabradė
Coordinates:54.9831°N 25.7664°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Ethnographic region
Subdivision Name1:Aukštaitija
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2: Vilnius County
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Švenčionys district municipality
Subdivision Type4:Eldership
Subdivision Name4:Pabradė eldership
Subdivision Type6:Capital of
Subdivision Name6:Pabradė eldership
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:15th century
Established Title2:Granted city rights
Established Date2:1946
Population Total:4,807
Population As Of:2021
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3

Pabradė (; Polish: Podbrodzie; Yiddish: פּאָדבראָדז Podbrodz) is a city in Lithuania, in Švenčionys district municipality, on Žeimena river, 38 km south-west of Švenčionys.

Pabradė is a busy place as the VilniusDaugavpils railway is close to the city. It was quite a small settlement until the 19th century, when the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway was built in 1862.

Pabradė Training Area, a major military facility, is located near the town.

History

About 850 Jews lived in the town in 1939, comprising one third of the total population.After June 1941, at the very beginning of the occupation, about a dozen Jews were executed. In the middle of July, Lithuanian policemen arrested about 60 Jews and shot them behind the mill. On September 1, the rest of the Jewish population was moved into a ghetto that was established on two streets, previously inhabited by Christians. The ghetto was open, so many of its residents escaped at the end of the month, after rumors about the forthcoming Aktion had spread. Over 100 Jews who were interred in the ghetto or who were recaptured were escorted to the military training camp in Švenčionėliai and shot on October 8–10, along with thousands of other Jews assembled there.[1] Policemen continued searching for Jewish escapees, gathered them in groups and shot them on the outskirts of town.[2]

Population

In 2011, the city's population was composed of Poles - 44.73% (2681), Lithuanians – 26.81% (1607), Russians - 18.45% (1106), Belarusians - 5.27% (316), Ukrainians - 1.17% (70), others - 3.57% (214).[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania . holocaustatlas.lt . 15 July 2017.
  2. Web site: YAHAD - IN UNUM . yahadmap.org . 15 July 2017.
  3. Web site: Miestų gyventojai pagal tautybę 2011 . osp.stat.gov.lt . 30 April 2017.