Wyszków

Infobox Settlement
name = Wyszków

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image_caption = View with Bug river

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image_shield = POL Wyszków COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Masovian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Wyszków County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Gmina Wyszków
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Grzegorz Nowosielski
established_title = Established
established_date = 13th century
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1502
area_total_km2 = 20.78
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 27010
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 52 | latm = 35 | lats = 36 | latNS = N | longd = 21 | longm = 27 | longs = 36 | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 07-200, 07-202
area_code = +48 029
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = WWY
website = http://www.wyszkow.pl

Wyszków [IPA-pl|'|w|y|sz|k|u|f] is a town in northeastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2003). It is the capital of Wyszków County ( _pl. powiat wyszkowski).

Description

Wyszków is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Warsaw Voivodeship (to 1975) and Ostrołęka Voivodeship (1975-1998).

The village of Wyszków was first documented in 1203. The town was founded in 1502. It was destroyed during the Polish-Sweden war in 1655-1660 when it lost its significance in the region. Industry developed from 1897 when the Pilawa-Tluszcz-Ostrołęka railway was built.

Jews in Wyszków

Before World War II half of Wyszków's population of 9,000 were Jewish - after there was none. On 14 September 1997 a memorial to Holocaust victims was unveiled in Wyszków. It is made of reclaimed Jewish gravestones that had been removed from the site in 1939 by German occupiers, who had used them as paving stones and in the construction of the local Gestapo headquarters. Scores of these desecrated tombstones were recovered and incorporated as part of the monument.

Wyszków was the place of birth of Mordechaj Anielewicz in 1919.

Notable people from Wyszków

* Mordechaj Anielewicz
* Jarosław Kalinowski