Interesting Facts:
1. From the early 1920s until 1938, Yiddish was one of the four state languages in Belarus.
2. At the beginning of 2024 in Belarus, the Commission on Commemoration of Holocaust Victims under the Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Associations and Communities installed more than 160 memorial signs at the site of the extermination of Jews in Belarus.
3. The Jewish community in Belarus is the fifth-largest after the Belarussian, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian communities.
4. The Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Associations and Communities operates the Museum of History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus, which has unique items, archival documents, and books, as well as a museum site for the study of Hebrew, Yiddish, genealogy, and the training of guides to Jewish places.
5. There are more than 70 religious and non-religious Jewish communities in Belarus. Thirty four of them are members of the UBJOC. The rest are part of the Litvak, Chabad, and Reform religious movements.
The Jewish community in Belarus is represented by the Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Associations and Communities, the Belarusian affiliate of the World Jewish Congress.