Zakrzówek is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Kraśnik County __NOTOC__ Kraśnik County ( pl, powiat kraśnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...

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, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Zakrzówek __NOTOC__ Gmina Zakrzówek is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Zakrzówek, which lies approximately east of Kraśnik and south of the regional capital ...

. It lies approximately east of

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and south of the regional capital

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History

Zakrzówek was built before the 13th century. The village was a fief of the

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. In the 16th century, a local church was built. In the 17th century, the parish of St. Nicholas was established. The wooden church, built in 1793, burned down in 1848. A new, birch church was built which still exists today.

The Holocaust

* More than 800 Jews lived in Zakrzówek upon the German invasion. In October 1942, 50 Jewish children together with elders and the disabled were slaughtered by the Nazis. A group of 400 remaining Jews—together with Jewish residents of nearby

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and Dzierzkowice—were moved to the ghetto in neighboring

. Some of them were taken to the labor camp at Budzyń by Kraśnik, but most of them were murdered in the death camps at

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and

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Twin villages

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References

External links

Gmina Zakrzówek
(Polish)
History of Zakrzówek
(Polish) Villages in Kraśnik County {{Kraśnik-geo-stub