Lakhva

Lakhva lies in the river country of Polesia, south of Kletsk. Recorded in a document of 1493, it passed to Anna of the Kiszka family in 1523 and through her became associated with the Radziwiłłs. By 1589 it was described as a small town with a vogt. Jewish settlement began in the second half of the seventeenth century, adding another community to the life of the estate. Lakhva remained a Radziwiłł possession into the nineteenth century, when it passed to the Wittgenstein family through marriage.