According to Pinkas HaKehillot Polin, a pogrom in Brest in the years 1648-1649 led to mass deaths and destruction:
....According to Jewish sources, about 2000 souls were killed in Brisk.
Among them, there were –probably– Jews from near-by neighborhoods.
Others fled to Great-Poland and to Danzig. The monk Kunaka described
the sight of the town after the destruction: Houses, shops and Synagogues were demolished, Jews were killed
This document includes nothing further on the identity of the synagogues destroyed.
| Notes: This period is called in Hebrew gzerot Takh veTat or the massacre of Takh veTat,
ת"ח ות"ט
, marking the Jewish year corresponding to 1648-1649. |
