Luzhki (; ; ) is an agrotown in Sharkawshchyna District, Vitebsk Region, in northern Belarus. It is located from Padsvillye, from Sharkawshchyna, and from Vitebsk. In 1999, it had a population of 905.
à Âuà ¼ki was a former possession of the Sapieha family until Aleksander Sapieha sold it to Walerian Antoni à »aba around 1734. Walerian Antoni à »aba founded a Piarist college and the Baroque Saint Michael church in the settlement. Later on, the town passed to the Plater and Czapski noble families.
In the interbellum, à Âuà ¼ki, as it was known in Polish, was a town administratively located in the Dzisna County in the Wilno Voivodeship of Poland. According to the 1921 Polish census, the population was 49.3% Polish, 25.5% Belarusian and 23.9% Jewish.
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, à Âuà ¼ki was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, where it was administered as part of Generalbezirk WeiÃÂruthenien of Reichskommissariat Ostland. In 1941, a Jewish ghetto was established in the settlement, and Jews were also subjected to forced labour. On 1 June 1942, the ghetto was dissolved and 528 Jews were massacred in a forest near the village. In 1944, the settlement was re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945.