Jakub Szynkiewicz was born to a Tatar family on 16 April 1884 in Lyakhavichy (Lachowicze) in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (from 1921 to 1939 part of Poland, today western Belarus). He was son of Sulejman and Fatma.
Jakub Szynkiewicz was born into a Tatar family on April 16, 1884, in Lyakhavichy, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (later part of Poland until 1939). He was the son of Sulejman and Fatma.