Zagórów

Zagórów [zaˈɡuruf] (German: Hinterberg) is a town in Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,908 inhabitants (2004).

Zagórów
Baroque Saints Peter and Paul church with the gate
Baroque Saints Peter and Paul church with the gate
Flag of Zagórów
Coat of arms of Zagórów
Zagórów is located in Poland
Zagórów
Zagórów
Coordinates: 52°9′56″N 17°53′30″E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountySłupca
GminaZagórów
First mentioned1240
Town rights1407/1445
Area
  Total3.44 km2 (1.33 sq mi)
Population
 (2006)
  Total2,932
  Density850/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
62-410
Vehicle registrationPSL
Websitehttp://www.zagorow.pl

History

The town's name is of Old Polish origin and comes from the word zagór.[1] The oldest known mention of the settlement comes from a document from 1240.[1] Zagórów received town rights from King Władysław II Jagiełło in 1407, however, these rights were implemented only in 1445.[1] It was a private church town, administratively located in the Konin County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2] The town suffered as a result of the 17th-century Polish–Swedish wars.[1]

It was annexed by Prussia during the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Regained by the Poles in 1807, as part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, it passed to the Russian Partition of Poland in 1815.[1] Polish insurgents were active in the area during the January Uprising in 1863, and a battle was fought in the nearby village of Myszaków.[1] As part of Anti-Polish repressions after the fallen uprising, the tsarist administration stripped Zagórów of its town rights in 1869.[1] Town rights were restored in 1919, after Poland regained independence.[1] In the interbellum the local economy revived.[1]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on November 21–22, 1939, 10 Polish inhabitants of Zagórów, former participants of the Polish Greater Poland uprising (1918–19), were murdered by the Germans in the forest in the nearby village of Grabina.[3] In 1939–1941, the Germans carried out expulsions of Poles, who were either deported to the so-called General Government (German-occupied central Poland) or enslaved as forced labour, while their homes, shops and workshops were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]

In 1940, the Germans forced Zagórów's 600 Jews into a ghetto and then resettled hundreds of Jews from other localities into the ghetto, without money, jobs, or places to live. Over 2,000 Jews were now in the ghetto, 10 to 15 people per room. In 1941, some were sent to a forced labor camp in the salt mines near Inowrocław. In late September 1941, all the Jews still in the ghetto were taken to the Kazimierz Biskupi Forest where they were murdered. Eyewitness testimonies document the horrific day where Germans were experimenting with mass killing methods.[5] Only a few Zagórów Jews survived the war.[6] After the war the town was restored to Poland.

References

  1. "Położenie i historia". Urząd Miejski Zagórów (in Polish). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1b.
  3. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 210.
  4. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 173, 230, 296. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
  5. "Transports to Extinction: Zagorow to Kazimierz Biskupi". Transports to Extinction. Yad Vashem. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) https://deportation.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&itemId=12834211&ind=7
  6. Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II 120–121. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.

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