- Szczekociny
Infobox Settlement
name = Szczekociny
image_shield = POL Szczekociny COA.svg
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Zawiercie
subdivision_type3 =Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Szczekociny
area_total_km2 = 17.98
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 3912
population_density_km2 = auto
latd = 50 | latm = 38 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 19 | longm = 50 | longs = | longEW = E
elevation_m =
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 42-445
website = http://www.szczekociny.pl/Szczekociny [IPA-pl|sz|cz|e|k|o|'|ć|i|n|y] ( _de. Schtschekotzin) is a town in
Silesian Voivodeship ,Poland , with 4,115 inhabitants (2004). TheBattle of Szczekociny was fought near the town onJune 6 ,1794 during theKościuszko Uprising .Jewish population of Szczekociny
According to Yossi Bornstein's Szczekociny.com [http://216.69.131.1/b94/story1.htm] (Hebrew language) 2532 persons out of 5600 citizens were Jewish before the German invasion of 1939. Pictures of the remains of the Jewish part can be viewed here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8uxz2GNt6c] In 1942 according to German Nazi Wehrmacht Plans, 1500 persons all Jewish residents of Szczkociny were deported to the German concentration and death camp Treblinka (see list deportations to Treblinka [http://holocaust-info.dk/treblinka/treblinka_deportations.htm] . Some 10 percent of the Jewish residents survived the genocide, such as Isik Mendel Bornstein. [http://216.69.131.1/b94/story1.htm] Bornstein's son Yossi has been at the forefront of renegotiating the relationship with a renovation of the current cemetery and synagogue, under the now full support of the local mayor. See also Wolf Zylbersztajn, another still living witness and survivor [http://www.geocities.com/dz.research/Wolf.html] . See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcvGm5dM180] and also Jerusalem Post 27/07/05 "Memorial to replace toilets at Jewish Cemetery in Poland." Another Jewish survivor story has been listed here [http://danielscounter.blogspot.com/2007/08/szczekociny-small-polish-town-facing.html] .
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