- Narewka
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See also: Narewka (river)
Narewka 
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NarewkaCoordinates: 52°50′10″N 23°45′27″E / 52.83611°N 23.7575°E Country 
PolandVoivodeship Podlaskie County Hajnówka County Gmina Gmina Narewka Population (2006) - Total 780 Time zone CET (UTC+1) - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) Postal code 17-220 Area code(s) +48 85 Car plates BHA Narewka [naˈrɛfka] (Belarusian: Нараўка) is a village in Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Hajnówka County, Gmina Narewka.[1] It is located near the border with Belarus. Many of the inhabitants belong to the Belarusian minority in Poland.
The village has a Catholic and Orthodox churches. It used to have a synagogue, but it was destroyed by the local Jewish population, angered after the Red Army which invaded Poland in 1939 desecrated it by turning it into a storage. Most of the Jewish population perished during the Holocaust.
There was also a large population of Belarusians and/or the Eastern Orthodox and Jews (743 in 1878). Jews first came into the area in 1690 and there were two Jewish cemeteries in the vicinity, one to the north of the marketplace (no longer existing) and one in the district of Jałówka.
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Memorial for Danuta Siedzikówna
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Seat Narewka
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