Narewka


Narewka [naˈrɛfka] (Belarusian:Нараўка) is a village in Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Hajnówka County, Gmina Narewka. It is located near the border with Belarus. Many of the inhabitants belong to the Belarusian minority in Poland.
The village has Catholic and Orthodox churches. It used to have a synagogue, but it was destroyed by the local Jewish population, angered after the Red Army which invaded Poland in 1939 desecrated it by turning it into a storage building. Most of the Jewish population perished during the Holocaust.