Baranów, Lublin Voivodeship

Baranów
Village
Baranów
Coordinates: 51°33′26″N 22°8′8″E / 51.55722°N 22.13556°E
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lublin
County Puławy
Gmina Baranów
Elevation 150 m (490 ft)
Population 1,672
Website http://www.baranow.mbnet.pl/

Baranów [baˈranuf] is a village in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Baranów. It lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Puławy and 46 km (29 mi) north-west of the regional capital Lublin.[1]

The village has a population of 1,672.

History

Baranów was founded as a town on the basis of Magdeburg Law in 1544. By the 19th century the town was in economic decline and in 1870 it lost its town status.

The first historical mention of the Jewish inhabitants of Baranów comes from records dating from 1621. In 1930 the village had a population of 2071, including 1092 Jews.[2] Under the German occupation of Poland the Jewish population was confined in a ghetto by 1942, then deported to the Sobibor extermination camp and murdered there. Fewer than 25 Baranów Jews survived the war, and the Jewish community was not reestablished in the village afterwards.[2] Except for the remnants of the Jewish cemetery and the name of one of the streets, few traces of the former Jewish presence remain in the village today.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe by Geoffrey P. Megargee, Christopher Browning, Martin Dean, Indiana University Press, 2012 pp. 611-612
  3. ↑ A Polish village's forgotten Jewish dead, BBC News, 15 June 2012

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Coordinates: 51°33′26″N 22°8′8″E / 51.55722°N 22.13556°E