Ożarów
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Holy Cross | ||
| Powiat : | Opatowski | ||
| Gmina : | Ożarów | ||
| Area : | 7.79 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 53 ′ N , 21 ° 40 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 4594 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 27-530 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 15 | ||
| License plate : | TOP | ||
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| Street : | DK79 | ||
Ożarów is a city in the Powiat Opatowski of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland . The city with almost 4600 inhabitants is the seat of the city-and-country municipality of the same name with around 10,900 inhabitants.
history
City rights were granted again in 1569 and after the revocation in 1870 in 1988. The place belonged from 1975 to 1998 to the Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship . The current mayor is Marcin Zbigniew Majcher, who was elected or confirmed in the local elections in 2018.
In 1939 there were around 3,200 Jews in Ożarów, that is two thirds of the population. The forced ghetto ordered by the Germans grew through deportations from the surrounding area to almost 6,000 people, who were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp at the end of October 1942 .
local community
In addition to the city itself, the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Ożarów includes 34 villages with a school administration office . The parish covers an area of 183.3 square kilometers.
literature
- Ożarów , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 566f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS): Population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of December 31, 2016. (PDF file; accessed September 29, 2017)