Włodawa
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Włodawa is a town in eastern Poland on the Bug river, close to the borders with Belarus and Ukraine. It has 14,800 inhabitants (2001).
Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999). It is the capital of Włodawa County.
First mentioned in historical records in 1242. Founded by Jewish immigrants from Germany, Wlodawa was over 70% Jewish before WWII and the Holocaust. Situated next to the Sobibor Concentration and Death Camp, Wlodawa's Jews were mostly rounded up and killed in Sobibor or one of its arbeitslagers (workcamps) like Adampol. A memorial to the Jews from Wlodawa who were killed there is at Adampol on the road to Wlodawa.
The remaining synagogue was converted to a museum and the Jewish cemetery was demolished by the Germans who used the headstones as road building material. A Wlodawa landsmenschafte (society) was founded in America for survivors and descendants of Wlodawa's Jewish Community and has members scattered throughout the US, Canada, Australia, England, Israel and elsewhere.
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