Staszów
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Staszów
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| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Świętokrzyskie | ||
| County | Staszów County | ||
| Gmina | Gmina Staszów | ||
| Town rights | 11 April 1525 | ||
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| • Town Council |
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| • Chairman Estate |
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| • District Council |
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| Area (through the years 2007-2010)[1] | |||
| • Total | 26.88 km2 (10.4 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 199 m (653 ft) | ||
| Population (31 December 2010 at Census)[1] | |||
| • Total | 15,108 | ||
| • Density | 562.1/km2 (1,455.7/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 28-200 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 15 | ||
| Car plates | TSZ | ||
| Website | http://www.staszow.pl | ||
Staszów[2][3][4] [ˈstaʂuf] is a town in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, about 54 km southeast of Kielce. It is the capital of Staszów County. Population is 15,108 (2010).
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Demography
According to the 2011 Poland census, there were 15,108 people residing in Staszów town, of whom 48.3% were male and 51.7% were female. In the town, the population was spread out with 19% under the age of 18, 38.2% from 18 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older.[1]
Table 1. Population level of town in 2010 — by age group[1] SPECIFICATION Measure
unitPOPULATION
(by age group in 2010)TOTAL 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75-79 80-84 85 + I. TOTAL person 15,108 731 697 854 1,039 1,051 1,181 1,130 976 977 954 1,256 1,309 1,168 619 499 330 182 155 — of which in % 100 4.8 4.6 5.7 6.9 7 7.8 7.5 6.5 6.5 6.3 8.3 8.7 7.7 4.1 3.3 2.2 1.2 1 1. BY SEX A. Males person 7,294 373 346 449 530 521 646 605 488 472 457 573 594 525 266 204 139 73 33 — of which in % 48.3 2.5 2.3 3 3.5 3.4 4.3 4 3.2 3.1 3 3.8 3.9 3.5 1.8 1.4 0.9 0.5 0.2 B. Females person 7,814 358 351 405 509 530 535 525 488 505 497 683 715 643 353 295 191 109 122 — of which in % 51.7 2.4 2.3 2.7 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.2 3.3 3.3 4.5 4.7 4.3 2.3 2 1.3 0.7 0.8
Figure 1. Population pyramid of town in 2010 — by age group and sex[1]
Table 2. Population level of town in 2010 — by sex[1] SPECIFICATION Measure
unitPOPULATION
(by sex in 2010)TOTAL Males Females I. TOTAL person 15,108 7,294 7,814 — of which in % 100 48.3 51.7 1. BY AGE GROUP A. At pre-working age person 2,868 1,490 1,378 — of which in % 19 9.9 9.1 B. At working age. grand total person 9,812 5,089 4,723 — of which in % 65 33.7 31.3 a. at mobile working age person 5,768 2,940 2,828 — of which in % 38.2 19.5 18.7 b. at non-mobile working age person 4,044 2,149 1,895 — of which in % 26.8 14.2 12.5 C. At post-working age person 2,428 715 1,713 — of which in % 16.1 4.7 11.4
Districts
City consists of 10 districts:
- Osiedle Oględowska - Złodziejówka (Thief Village)
- Osiedle Ogrody (The Gardens)
- Osiedle Północ (North town)
- Osiedle Wschód - Pipała (East town)
- Stare Miasto (Old town alias Downtown)
- Staszówek
- Golejów
- Radzików
- Pocieszka
- Małopolskie
Black Sunday
Staszów (pronounced Stash-ouv) is one of the many sites in occupied Poland where Jews were exterminated en masse by Germans. The famous Sefer Staszów (The Staszów Book) (Sefer Stashev) contains eyewitness accounts of life in the ghetto, the mass extermination on Black Sunday (Nov 8, 1942), and the subsequent horrors.
According to Sefer Staszów, the night before Black Sunday, Obersturmfuehrer Schild ordered the Jewish policemen to instruct all the Jews in town to be present by 8 o'clock in the morning at the marketplace. Anybody who did not obey this order would be shot. By 8 o'clock in the morning about 5,000 Jews, young and old, children and grown-ups, had assembled at the market place in order to begin their march to death. At 10 in the morning, Schild gave the order: “March! And so the people started the march and as soon as they filed into Krakowska Street, the murderers shot into the mass of people, strewing the whole road with innocent victims. Blood ran from the Krakowska street down to the river. The march of the Staszów Jews took them through Szczuczin and Stopnica to Belzec extermination camp. More than 1,000 Jews reached Stopnica. In Niziny village, 9 kilometres from Staszów, a mass grave was dug for 740 victims.
Those who had not come at 8 AM to the marketplace were bestially murdered in their homes. All those killed in Staszów itself on the day of slaughter were buried in a single mass grave at the Jewish Cemetery. Many more Jews, who were retained for hard labor or who had hidden in bunkers, were subsequently killed or shipped to a concentration camp.
Original Jewish Cemetery
Over 175 years old, the Jewish Cemetery was not maintained, and at one point was even replaced without a trace by a playground. The newer Jewish cemetery, two-thirds of a mile from the center of Staszow, was an empty lot. The gravestones had been carted away by the Nazis for use as paving stones on muddy roads and sold to a construction company by municipal authorities after the war when no Jews returned to claim them.
An individual living in New York paid to have the grounds spruced up, to have a 10-foot Holocaust memorial constructed, to have some 155 Jewish gravestones he discovered in Staszow homes brought back to the cemetery, and to have a marker set up at a Holocaust-era mass grave.
External links
- Official town website
- Map, via mapa.szukacz.pl
- Sefer Staszow English Translation Online
- More about Saving the Stazow Jewish Cemetery [1]
- Website devoted to the memory of Staszow Jews who perished in the Holocaust
- A calendar of Jewish history in Staszowie against the background of important events in the history of the city, foundation for the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland
- History of Staszów, Poland and its Jewish Community, Dr. N. M. Gelber, jewishgen.org, an extension of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
- History of Staszów, staszow.com
- Kosciuszko's Route on Ziemia Staszowska, staszow.com
- The Royal Opponent, Report about operations of the 71st Independent Guards Heavy Tank Regiment from 14.07.44 to 31.08.44, staszow.com
- Polish official population figures 2006
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Local Data Bank (Bank Danych Lokalnych) – Layout by NTS nomenclature (Układ wg klasyfikacji NTS)". demografia.stat.gov.pl: GUS. 10 March 2011. http://www.stat.gov.pl/bdlen/app/strona.html?p_name=indeks.
- ^ Bielec, Jan (ed.); Szwałek, Stanisława (1982) (in Polish). Wykaz urzędowych nazw miejscowości w Polsce. T. III: P – Ż [List of official names of localities in Poland, Vol. III: P – Ż]. Ministry of Administration, Spatial Economy and Environmental Protection (1st ed.). Warsaw, Poland: Central Statistical Office.
- ^ Sitek, Janusz (1991) (in Polish). Nazwy geograficzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej [Geographical names of the Republic of Poland]. Ministry of Physical Planning and Construction, Surveyor General of Poland, Council of Ministers' Office, Commission for Establishing Names of Localities and Physiographical Objects (1st ed.). Warsaw, Poland: Eugeniusz Romer State Cartographical Publishing House. ISBN 83-7000-071-1.
- ^ "Staszów, miasto, gmina Staszów — miasto, powiat staszowski, województwo świętokrzyskie [Staszów, town, Staszów Commune — urban area, Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Province, Poland]" (in Polish). Topographical map prepared in 1:10,000 scale. Aerial and satellite orthophotomap. Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland, Warsaw. 2011. geoportal.gov.pl. http://maps.geoportal.gov.pl/webclient/default.aspx?crs=EPSG%3A2180&bbox=653574.5252317875,301767.2164798346,653940.7033105224,301908.11486476054&variant=ORTO. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
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