Miedzyrzec Podlaski Polish town situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, in 100 km from Lublin, near the border with Belarus. Presumably, międzyrzec Podlaski was founded in 1174, when this place was built the Church of St. Nicholas. In 1369, the city is mentioned again in the chronicle among ten other villages on the river XNA.

City rights międzyrzec Podlaski received in 1434, and in 1486 had the Royal prerogative on the market trade. The city began to develop rapidly, they started producing ceramics, also, the area was famous for forging masters. In the eighteenth century, the city began to brew beer.

In 1795, during the partitions of Poland, the town was annexed by Austria-Hungary, and after the Napoleonic wars, was ceded to the Russian Empire. In 1867 there was the railway that led to the growth of the Jewish community, which was formed in Miedzyrzec Podlaski from the sixteenth century. By the end of the 1930s, the city population was about 12,000 people, three quarters of whom were Jews. During the war years around the city by the Germans was established six concentration camps where they killed and maimed people until July 1944.

The main attractions of the city include the old town square, Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Church of St. Nicholas, built in 1477, Catholic and Jewish cemeteries.