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Gmina Józefów nad Wisłą is an urban-rural
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...
(administrative district) in
Opole Lubelskie County,
Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital being the city of Lublin.
The region is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lu ...
, in eastern
Poland
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. Its seat is the town of
Józefów nad Wisłą, which lies approximately south-west of
Opole Lubelskie and south-west of the regional capital
Lublin
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.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 6,997 (6,743 in 2015).
History
Prior to the
Holocaust
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, between 800 and 1,000 Jews lived in the town. There were two labor camps established for Jews, located in the synagogue and at the school building. 300 slave laborers worked on construction of embankments in the village of Rybitwy, which culminated in March 1942. From May to October 1941, Polish, Austrian and German Jews worked in slave labor at the school building. On May 9, 1942, the population of Józefów ghetto was sent to
Opole Lubelskie, from where they were sent to the death camp at
Sobibór.
Villages
Apart from the town of Józefów nad Wisłą, Gmina Józefów nad Wisłą contains the villages and settlements of
Basonia,
Boiska-Kolonia,
Bór,
Chruślanki Józefowskie,
Chruślanki Mazanowskie,
Chruślina,
Chruślina-Kolonia,
Dębniak,
Graniczna,
Idalin,
Kaliszany-Kolonia,
Kolczyn,
Łopoczno,
Mariampol,
Mazanów,
Miłoszówka,
Niesiołowice,
Nieszawa
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History
...
,
Nieszawa-Kolonia,
Nietrzeba,
Owczarnia,
Pielgrzymka,
Pocześle,
Prawno,
Rybitwy,
Spławy,
Stare Boiska,
Stare Kaliszany,
Stasin,
Stefanówka,
Studnisko,
Ugory,
Wałowice,
Wałowice-Kolonia and
Wólka Kolczyńska.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Józefów nad Wisłą is bordered by the gminas of
Annopol,
Dzierzkowice,
Łaziska,
Opole Lubelskie,
Solec nad Wisłą
Solec nad Wisłą is a town in Lipsko County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Solec nad Wisłą. It lies approximately east of Lipsko and south-east of Warsaw. T ...
,
Tarłów and
Urzędów
Urzędów is a town in Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Urzędów. It lies in Lesser Poland, approximately north-west of Kraśnik and south-west of the re ...
.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Jozefow nad Wisla
Opole Lubelskie County