Tuliszkow

Tuliszkow is a city in Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,406 inhabitants. In World War II, Tuliszkow become home to one of the first Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland following the Nazi German and Soviet invasion of 1939. The ghetto became shaped in December 1939 or January 1940. The oldest mention of Tuliszkow in 1320 originates from the Chronicle of Kacper Niesiecki, written 3 centuries later. Known in Latin as Tviliskow, Tuliscov, or Tuliscovo, it received metropolis privileges in 1458 after the Battle of Grunwald. Featured in the Tuliszków coat-of-arms is the knight 'Janusz Tuliszkowa' holding his Grunwald sword.

The metropolis grew substantially inside the 19^th century, despite the fact that stripped of town privileges by way of the tsar in 1870 as revenge for the January Uprising in opposition to the Russian profession. Much of the town turned into fed on by hearth in 1881. The populace of Tuliszkow turned into approximately 2,000 inside the beginning of the 20^th century. Following Poland's return to independence the city rights have been restored. In the Second Polish Republic the population grew to 2,600 before 1939.