Slawatycze

Sławatycze is a village in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. Before the Holocaust, the local Jewish population numbered around 1,300 individuals. In June 1942, the Germans gathered all Jewish citizens in the market square and during the next three days murdered them all. Their bodies were laid in a 100 meter long mass grave in Jewish cemetery in Sławatycze. There are impressive churches at the junction and a picnic space of the banks of the River Bug, overlooking Belarus beyond. I visited this POI as part of IBRG EPTEX-24 expedition.

The Picnic Spot

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A solitary border marker was visible, the Belarus one hidden in the vegetation.

The Churches

There were 2 churches on opposite sides of the junction. The Church of the Intercession is a Polish Orthodox Church, on the opposite side of the road is the Roman Catholic Blessed Mother of the Rosary Church.