Tłuszcz (

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: ''Fat'',

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: ''Tluschtsch'') is a town in

Wołomin County __FORCETOC__ Wołomin County () is a territorial and administrative division in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The administrative ...

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

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, with 8,039 inhabitants (2021).

History

Tłuszcz was founded in the 15th century. It was a royal village of Poland, administratively located in the

Nur Land Nur Land (Polish: ''ziemia nurska''), named after the town (now a village) of Nur, was an administrative unit (ziemia) of the Duchy of Mazovia, Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. With its capital in Nur, it belonged to Ma ...

in the

in the Greater Poland Province. During the

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution. After the collapse ...

, in the night of 12–13 August 1920, Tłuszcz was the scene of a skirmish between the Poles and the invading Russians, part of the

Battle of Warsaw (1920) The Battle of Warsaw (; , ), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula (), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory and complete disintegration of the Red Army in August 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War. After the ...

Holocaust

For several years since 1939, the town of Tłuszcz was controlled in

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Nazis Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...

who removed pockets of

Jews Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...

from the city, shot and killed many of the same, and segregated various Jewish populations away from Tłuszcz borders.

Rail

The

Tłuszcz Railway Station Tłuszcz railway station is a railway station serving Tłuszcz in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. It is served by Koleje Mazowieckie (who run services from Warszawa Zachodnia to Małkinia and from Tłuszcz to Ostrołęka) Przewozy Regionalne and ...

was established 1862. Modern stations on the line connect to multiple European destinations.

References

External links

Official town and commune webpageJewish Community in Tłuszcz
on Virtual Shtetl Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Wołomin County 15th-century establishments in Poland Populated places established in the 15th century Nazi war crimes Massacres of Jews {{Masovian-geo-stub