Garwolin

Garwolin is a town at the Wilga River in eastern Poland, capital of Garwolin County, located inside the southeast a part of the Garwolin plateau in Masovian Voivodeship 62 km southeast of Warsaw, 100 km northwest of Lublin. There are approximately 16,000 inhabitants within the city. Traces of settlement on terrains of modern day’s boundaries of Garwolin are extra than 2000 years vintage. It is believed that Garwolin received its metropolis charter in 1423, however the actual date is unknown it is nearly positive that the file from 1423 turned into handiest acknowledgement of before stated metropolis legal guidelines.

In time of the Deluge casualties exceeded 90 percentage. During World War II and the Nazi career of Poland, approximately 70% of the town become destroyed. The metropolis and the powiat had been administered by Kreishauptmann Karl Freudenthal, who changed into chargeable for the murder of extra than 1000 populations, the deportation of several thousand local Poles to Nazi awareness camps and slave hard work in Nazi Germany, and the switch of the nearby Jews to numerous ghettos within the place.