Kamyenyets<!--See WP:BELARUSIANNAMES--> or Kamenets, also known as Kamyanyets, is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Kamyenyets District. Memories of the town are included in Yechezkel Kotik's memoir, published in English as Journey To a Nineteenth Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik. Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak-Kaminetz was there 1926-1939.

From 1921 to 1939, it was part of the Second Polish Republic. In 1939, it was occupied by Soviet Union and annexed to the Belorussian SSR. From 23 June 1941 to 22 July 1944, Kamyenyets was occupied by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of Bezirk Bialystok. During the Nazi occupation, most local Jews were killed.

After World War II, the town developed as a minor center of the food processing industry (cheese and butter making, baking of bread, etc.).

Notable residents

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  • Syarhey Kislyak (born 1987), footballer

Notes

References

  • Kamenets - Belarus at its BEST!
  • Kamenets Tower
  • Photos on Radzima.org
  • Kamenets website

kk:Каменец (Плевен облысы)