Raduń was a
royal town, administratively located in the Lida County in the
Vilnius Voivodeship of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The shortest 16th-century route connecting
Kraków and
Vilnius led through the town. After the
Invasion of Poland in September 1939, Radun was occupied by the
Soviet Union and incorporated into the
Byelorussian SSR on 14 November 1939. In 1940, most of the yeshiva students were transferred to the United States via Japan. From June 1941 until 13 July 1944, Radun was
occupied by Germany and administered as a part of the
Generalbezirk Weißruthenien of
Reichskommissariat Ostland. On November 16, 1941, a fenced
ghetto was established on Zhydovska Street, previously a Jewish street. There were also Jews from neighbouring villages gathered in the ghetto: Dovguielishki, Zabolote, Zhyrmuny and Nacha. More than 2,000 Jews were confined inside the ghetto. On May 10, 1942, 100 young Jews were requisitioned to dig pits in the Jewish cemetery. As the working Jews attempted a mass-escape, many of them were shot. When the ghetto was liquidated, more than 1,500 Jews were killed by the Germans and the local police. Nearly 300 skilled artisans were kept alive, and later sent to
Shchuchin ghetto and from there, after a while, to their deaths in an unknown location. As of 2018, there were no Jews living in Radun. ==Demographics==