Maków Mazowiecki
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Maków Mazowiecki is a town in Poland, in Masovian Voivodship. It is the powiat capital of the Maków County (or Powiat of Maków). The population is 10,850.
The town obtained its town charter in 1421. Before 1939 about half of its population of 5000-6000 was Jewish. The Jewish community was murdered during the Nazi German occupation, in the Holocaust.
While a secret protocol 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. In the course of Maków Mazowiecki being seized from the Germans by a counter-attacking Red Army in January, 1945, heavy fighting and artillery barrages destroyed 90% of the town's buildings.
[edit] Famous people
- Hyman G. Rickover - admiral in the US Navy, born in Maków in 1900
[edit] External links
- Official town webpage
- Location via Encarta Maps
- "Mapping the Holocaust" -- pictures Soviet and German officers dividing Poland
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