Dubiecko (; yi, דיבעצק, Dubetzk; uk, Дубецько, Dubetsʹko) is a

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Przemyśl County __NOTOC__ Przemyśl County ( pl, powiat przemyski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a re ...

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, in southeastern Poland. It is the seat of the '' gmina'' (administrative district) called Gmina Dubiecko. It lies approximately west of Przemyśl and southeast of the regional capital

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. The village has a population of 1,150.

History

In 1389, Polish King

Władysław II Jagiełło Jogaila (; 1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło ()He is known under a number of names: lt, Jogaila Algirdaitis; pl, Władysław II Jagiełło; be, Jahajła (Ягайла). See also: Names and titles of Władysław II Jagiełło. ...

granted the royal village of Dubiecko to castellan Piotr Kmita. In 1407, King Władysław II granted

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, while Piotr Kmita established a Catholic parish church. As a result of the First Partition of Poland, in 1772, the town was annexed by

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and made part of the newly formed

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, within which it was administratively located in the Przemyśl county (''Bezirkshauptmannschaft''). Following

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, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of the town.

Jewish history

The town had about 1000 Jews, most of them Hassidic (ultra orthodox), and several religious Zionists. On September 17, 1939, (On the Jewish 'Gedalya' fast day) German soldiers entered Dubiecko, two days after the slaughter of the Jews of

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on the second day of

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(September 15, 1939). They caught 11 Jews and killed them, burning the synagogues and beating the men attempting to save holy scrolls, including the Rabbis. A week later (eve of the Succoth festivities week), on September 27 the remaining Jews were ordered to assemble at the town square. From there they were marched across the border, and the San river, while being beaten and brutalized, to Soviet territory. Some drowned during the crossing. Peasants on both sides of the river robbed the Jews of whatever little possessions they had. Some ended up in Przemyśl others in Lwów. Many perished on the way. The young

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of the town perished with his wife in Przemyśl, after returning from Jerusalem to Poland just before the war. Most of the remaining Jews perished later after

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in June 1941, almost two years later.

Notable people

Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 173514 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, ''Ermland'') and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet"Ignacy Krasic ...

(1735–1801), Polish poet, bishop, playwright, encyclopedist, Prince-Bishop of Warmia, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland

Sports

The local football club is Pogórze Dubiecko. It competes in the lower leagues.

References

External links

Destruction of the Jewish community in the Holocaust
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