Działoszyn is a town in

Pajęczno County __NOTOC__ Pajęczno County ( pl, powiat pajęczański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government r ...

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, in south-central

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, with 5,627 inhabitants as of December 2021.

History

Działoszyn was granted town rights in 1421. During the German

invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week aft ...

at the beginning of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Działoszyn was the site of heavy fights between the Poles and the Germans. The town was heavily bombed by the Germans, and most of its Jews fled to nearby Paincheno, where they were employed in

forced labor Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

. Eventually, the town's Jews were murdered by the occupiers in

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

.The story of the Jewish community Działoszyn
/ref> The German occupiers, renamed the town to ''Dilltal''. In 1945, the

German occupation German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...

ended, and the town's historic name was restored.

Sports

The local

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club is Warta Działoszyn. It competes in the lower leagues. It was the first club of retired

Poland national football team The Poland national football team ( pl, Reprezentacja Polski w piłce nożnej) has represented Poland in men's international tournaments football competitions since their first match in 1921. The team is controlled by the Polish Football Associ ...

player

Robert Warzycha Robert Warzycha () (born 20 August 1963) is a Polish former professional association football player. Warzycha had a long career in Europe, playing for teams in Poland, Hungary and England with Everton in the Premier League. He won two Polish ...

Gallery

File:Działoszyn pałac Męcińskich powiatowy ośrodek kultury 02.05.2011 p2.jpg, Męciński Palace File:Działoszyn kościół śś. Marii i Magdaleny 02.05.2011. p2.jpg,

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

Saint Mary Magdalene church File:Dzialoszyn61.jpg, Kayak station File:Działoszyn, cmentarz komunalny, mogiły poległych w wojnie obronnej w 1939 r..jpg, Cemetery of Polish soldiers killed during the German invasion in 1939

References

External links

Official site of Działoszyn

Cities and towns in Łódź Voivodeship Pajęczno County Kalisz Governorate Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Łódź-geo-stub