Piaseczno

For other places with the same name, see Piaseczno (disambiguation).
Piaseczno
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Piaseczno
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Country  Poland
Voivodeship Masovian
County Piaseczno County
Gmina Gmina Piaseczno
Established 14th century
Town rights 1429
Government
 • Mayor Zdzisław Lis
Area
 • Total 16.33 km2 (6.3 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Total 37,508
 • Density 2,296.9/km2 (5,948.9/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 05-500
Area code(s) +48 022
Car plates WPI
Website http://www.piaseczno.eu/

Piaseczno [pjaˈsɛt​͡ʂnɔ] ( listen) is a town in central Poland with 32,610 inhabitants (2005). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, approximately 16 kilometers south of Warsaw. It is a popular residential area and a suburb of Warsaw and is strongly linked to the capital, both economically and culturally. It is the capital of Piaseczno County.

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World War II

In 1940, during the Nazi Occupation of Poland, German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Piaseczno,[1] in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation.[2] The ghetto was liquidated in January 1941, when all its 2,500 inhabitants were transported in cattle trucks to Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2). From there, most victims were sent to Treblinka extermination camp.[3][4][5][6]

For more details on this topic, see Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns — Sister cities

Piaseczno is twinned with:

Notes and references

  1. ^ The statistical data compiled on the basis of "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland" by Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of the Polish Jews  (English), as well as "Getta Żydowskie," by Gedeon,  (Polish) and "Ghetto List" by Michael Peters at www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm  (English). Accessed July 12, 2011.
  2. ^ "The War Against The Jews." The Holocaust Chronicle, 2009. Chicago, Il. Accessed June 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Warsaw Ghetto, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C.
  4. ^ Richard C. Lukas, Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust, University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944, University Press of Kentucky, 1986, Google Print, p.13.
  5. ^ Gunnar S. Paulsson, "The Rescue of Jews by Non-Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland," Journal of Holocaust Education, Vol.7, Nos.1&2, 1998, pp.19-44. Published by Frank Cass, London.
  6. ^ Edward Victor, "Ghettos and Other Jewish Communities." Judaica Philatelic. Accessed June 20, 2011.

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