Tomaszow Lubelski

Tomaszow Lubelski is a city in south Poland with 20,261 inhabitants. Situated within the Lublin Voivodeship previously in Zamosc Voivodeship 1975 to 1998, close to Roztocze National Park. It is the capital of Tomaszow Lubelski County. The city turned into based at the stop of the 16^th century by Jan Zamoyski as Jelitowo. It is understood with the aid of its modern-day call on account that 1613 while it becomes renamed after Zamoyski son, Tomasz. It received its city charter in 1621. The vicinity across the city noticed extreme preventing in 1914 during World War I.

Throughout its records, the metropolis had an extensive Jewish network, which numbered over 5,600 in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II, making up its populace. The city become bombed and located itself underneath the German career following the invasion of Poland in 1939. During the direction of the Holocaust, the Nazi Germans first positioned the Jews in a ghetto mounted within the city, then exterminated them in 1942 at Belzec loss of life camp located a few km, south of the city. The Jewish network ceased to exist.