At the conclusion of
World War I, Mikaszewicze held a special place in the political dialogue accompanying the
Polish–Soviet War. The talks started in October 1919 at the small Mikaszewicze railway station and continued until December 1919. During the talks,
Marshal Józef Piłsudski informed the Bolshevik delegation that Poland was not supporting the
White movement of
Anton Denikin in the
Russian Civil War. The exchange of prisoners was decided there. However, the talks soon broke down. Already informed about Poland's intentions regarding the Lithuanian–Belorussian front, Bolshevik leaders began a progressive concentration of the forces on the interim border with Poland. In the
interwar period, it was located in the
Polesie Voivodeship of Poland. The town had a Jewish population of about 400 before the war, a quarter of its residents. They were murdered outside the town on August 6, 1942. Following the
invasion of Poland in September 1939 at the start of
World War II, it was
occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by
Nazi Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945. ==Sports==