Karelichy

[1] It was a possession of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later a private town of the Czartoryski and Radziwiłł families, administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[2] French, Polish and Russian troops passed through the town in 1812.[2] The town was historically a center of a large Jewish community; its population in 1900 was 1,840.[3] In the interwar period, it was administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of Poland.Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, and eventually annexed from Poland.