1919
� Poland (1919-1939) (except short occupation by USSR in 1920)
� Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1939-1941 and 1944-1991) and
� Germany (1941-1944).
The city was a county (powiat) centre in Nowogr�dek Province during Polish rule between 1919-1939.
The Jews of Nesvizh
The Jewish population in 1900 stood at 4,687, and approx. 4,500 on the eve of the German invasion of Operation Barbarossa. With the occupation beginning on June 27, 1941, they established a Judenrat. On October 30, 4,000 of the town's Jews were murdered and the rest confined to a ghetto. On July 20, 1942, the ghetto was surrounded by Belorussian police and the German commander announced that the ghetto's population would be liquidated with the exception of 30 essential skilled workers. The ghetto's underground organization, based on a Soviet-era Zionist group, called for self-defense, having one machine gun but mostly knives and similar arms. Most of the Jews were killed; a few succeeded in escaping to nearby forests to join partisan units, including the Zhukov Jewish partisan unit
