Lenin was a
private town of the
Olelkowicz and
Radziwiłł families, administratively located in the
Nowogródek Voivodeship of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the
Partitions of Poland, when it was annexed by
Russia, within which it was part of the
Mozyrsky Uyezd in the
Minsk Governorate. Following
World War I, Lenin was part of reborn
Poland, within which it was administratively located in the Łuniniec County in the
Polesie Voivodeship. Following the joint German-Soviet
invasion of Poland, which started
World War II in September 1939, the settlement was
occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by
Nazi Germany until 1944. The German occupiers subjected local Jews to
forced labour, and in 1942 established a
ghetto. On 14 August 1942, the occupiers committed a massacre of the Jews, keeping 28 alive to work for the Germans. In 1944 it was re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945. ==References==