Kozienice

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Kozienice ([kɔʑi̯ɛ'niʦɛ] (help·info)) (Yiddish: קאזשניץ Kozhnits) is a town in central Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). It is the capital of Kozienice County (Polish Powiat kozienicki).

Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Radom Voivodeship (1975-1998) and in Kielce Voivodeship (1919-1939, 1945-1975).

At Kozienice there is a huge thermal power station.

Kozienice is in the Radom district, almost four miles from the Vistula, surrounded by forests, water, villages, and towns such as Zwoleń, Gniewoszów, Magnuszew, Mniszów, Ryczywół, Garbatke, and other smaller Jewish settlements. In the early 19th century, the Kozienicer Magid Yisroel Hopsztajn was one of the pioneers of Hasidism in Poland. In 1856, there were 2,885 people in Kozienice (1,961 Jews), and in 1897, there were 6,882 people (3,700 Jews). Before World War II, about 15,000 souls lived in this region. The Jewish community lived there for about 400 years. The two main industries there were tourism (pilgrims visiting the Maggid's tomb) and shoe manufacturing

Sefer Zikaron li-Kehilat Kozhnitz (The book of Kozienice; The birth and the destruction of a Jewish community); Editor: Baruch Kaplinski, Tel Aviv – New York, The Kozienice Organization, 1985 (English, 677 pages), and the Former Residents of Kozhnitz in Israel, 1969 (Hebrew and Yiddish, 516 pages). http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kozienice/kozienice.html