Zakrzówek is a

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, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called Gmina Zakrzówek. 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, brick 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