Tomashovka (Brest region)

It is located 72 km south of Brest , in the extreme southwestern tip of Belarus, in close proximity to the borders of Poland and Ukraine , 5 km north of the point where the borders of the three countries converge. Wlodawa railway station on a dead end branch from the station. Brest-South (before the war there was a railway connection with Helm ).

25 km from Tomashovka in the urban village of Domachevo passes the Belarusian-Polish border, where the border crossing of the Belarusian-Polish border "Domachevo-Slovatyche" is located. In Tomashovka itself, there is an existing international border crossing to Ukraine .

In the center of Tomashovka

Tomashovka was founded in 1900 ^[2] to service the Wlodawa station of the Helm-Brest railway. In World War I in 1915-16 there were battles between German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian troops, during which 1346 soldiers were killed on both sides. In 1919, the cemetery with the graves of the dead soldiers was landscaped with funds from the International Red Cross ^[3] .

According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), Tomaszówka became part of interwar Poland , where it belonged to the Brest district of the Polessk Voivodeship . In 1921 in the village of Tomashovka there were three courtyards and 18 inhabitants. At the railway station of Wlodawa (now within the boundaries of Tomashovka) - 24 yards, 185 residents. Since 1939, as part of the BSSR ^[4] .

During the German occupation during World War II , a Jewish ghetto was located in Tomaszowka, where in 1942 2,000 local Jews were killed from neighboring villages. This is reminiscent of the obelisk, established in 1954 ^[5] .

Tomashovka is one of the largest villages in the Brest region, there is a modern school, hotel "Slavyanka", restaurant "Cosmos", a sports complex, a children's sanatorium "Tomashovka", an outpatient clinic, several shops, a post office, a bank branch.

• The building of the railway station Wlodawa (early XX century).
• The cemetery of the First World War . 1346 soldiers were buried on both sides.
• Mass grave of Soviet border guards. 22 border guards who died on June 22, 1941 were buried. In 1969, a stele was installed ^[3] .
• The grave of the victims of fascism and the obelisk. Located near the village. More than 2 thousand Jews who were killed in 1942 during the liquidation of the local ghetto were buried.
• Cosmonautics Museum at a local school.

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• Klimuk, Pyotr Ilyich (born July 10, 1942 ) - Soviet cosmonaut . Twice Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1973 , 1975 ), Colonel General of Aviation. Candidate of Technical Sciences (1995).
• Prokopovich, Pyotr Petrovich (born November 3, 1942 ) - Belarusian statesman, chairman of the board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus in 1998-2011. He studied at the Tomashovskaya school. Hero of Belarus .

• Ghetto in Tomashovka

• The "finest hour" of Tomashovka (neopr.) . yuzle.com. Date of treatment February 22, 2016.
• Tomasovka on the website globus.tut.by
• Tomashovka on the website radzima.org