History
Before 1939 Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai) was located in the Lida county of the Nowogródek Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic. It was briefly taken by the Soviet Union afterwards and was transferred to Lithuania according to the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty. The village became part of the Jašiūnai Municipality, Eišiškės County before final takeover of Lithuania by Soviet Union on 3rd of August 1940. Later it was briefly part of the German Reichskommissariat Ostland before returning to the Lithuanian SSR (since 1990, Lithuania).
During World War II, it was the site of the Koniuchy massacre by Soviet partisans which included a Jewish partisan detachment.[1][2]
References
{{commonscat|Kaniūkai (Šalčininkai)}}1. ^[https://books.google.co.il/books?id=VkGB1CSfIlEC&pg=PA146&dq=Koniuchy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfqZjKjPPaAhVDC-wKHT-YCGsQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=Koniuchy&f=false Historical Dictionary of Lithuania], Saulius A. Suziedelis, page 146-147
2. ^[https://books.google.co.il/books?id=Ya7RMPN9-ZsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Koniuchy+1944+farce&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif2JK3ou_aAhUGXSwKHZaAAD8Q6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=Koniuchy&f=false Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe], John-Paul Himka and Joanna Michlic, pages 339-342