Maków Mazowiecki


Maków Mazowiecki is a town in Poland, in the Masovian Voivodship. It is the powiat capital of Maków County. Its population is 10,850.
The town obtained its town charter in 1421. Before 1939 about 7000 people lived in Maków, including 3000 Jews and 4000 Poles. The Jewish community was murdered during the Nazi German occupation, in the Holocaust. Some killings were done in the town; thousands of Makow Mazowiecki Jews were murdered at Auschwitz.
While a had been struck prior to World War II between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that laid plans to split up Poland between them, Germany later abrogated this agreement and struck deeply into Russian territory. The Germans occupied Maków Mazowiecki from September 1939 to April 1945. in January 1945, heavy fighting and artillery barrages destroyed 90% of the town's buildings.

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