Bakszty — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Volozhin district, Novogrudek district.

 According to a census of 1897, the Jewish population numbered 172 persons out of 1,461 residents. In 1921 there were only 13 Jews left, but then their numbers increased slightly. Most of the Jews lost their homes in World War I, and in 1923, Yakapa (Jewish Relief Committee for War Victims) built 10 houses for them. In the late 1920s, 55 Jews lived in the town. During the Nazi occupation, Jews in the Bakszty were transferred to the Iwje Ghetto. On May 12, 1942, they were murdered together with residents of this ghetto and buried in a large mass grave outside the town.