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Działoszyce
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| Coordinates: | |||
| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Świętokrzyskie | ||
| County | Pińczów | ||
| Gmina | Działoszyce | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 1.91 km2 (0.7 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| • Total | 1,068 | ||
| • Density | 559.2/km2 (1,448.2/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | 28-440 | ||
| Website | http://www.dzialoszyce.pl | ||
Działoszyce [d͡ʑawɔˈʂɨt͡sɛ] ( listen) is a town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,117 inhabitants (2004).
The earliest mention of Działoszyce in historical records comes from 1220. In 1409 king Władysław II Jagiełło gave it a city charter. According to the 1921 census the town had a Jewish community consisting of 5618 people, or 83.6 percent of its total population.[1] The Jewish population was exterminated in the Holocaust by German Nazis during their occupation of Poland. After the war the town's population did not recover, and today it is less than one fifth of what it was before the war.