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Revision as of 12:38, 24 March 2012
Błonie | |
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 Błonie Main Square | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| County | Warsaw West |
| Gmina | Błonie |
| Established | 11th century |
| Town rights | 1338 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zenon Reszka |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9.12 km2 (3.52 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 12,259 |
| • Density | 1,300/km2 (3,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 05-870 |
| Area code | +48 22 |
| Car plates | WZ |
| Website | http://www.blonie.pl/ |
Błonie [ˈbwɔɲɛ] is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 12,191 inhabitants (2004).
World War II
During the Nazi Occupation of Poland in World War II, German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Błonie in December of 1940,[1] in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation.[2] The ghetto was liquidated in February 1941, when all its 2,100 inhabitants were transported in cattle trucks to Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 7.2 persons per room.[3] By the time Nazi-occupied Poland was liberated, not a single Jewish ghetto remained.[4][5][6]
Transport
Błonie railway station, opened in 1902 on the Warsaw–Kalisz Railway, is served by Koleje Mazowieckie, who run services between Kutno and Warszawa Wschodnia Osobowa.
References
- ^ The statistical data compiled on the basis of "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland" by Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of the Polish Jews Template:En icon, as well as "Getta Żydowskie," by Gedeon, Template:Pl icon and "Ghetto List" by Michael Peters at www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm Template:En icon. Accessed July 12, 2011.
- ^ "The War Against The Jews." The Holocaust Chronicle, 2009. Chicago, Il. Accessed June 21, 2011.
- ^ Warsaw Ghetto, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C.
- ^ Richard C. Lukas, Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust, University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944, University Press of Kentucky, 1986, Google Print, p.13.
- ^ Gunnar S. Paulsson, "The Rescue of Jews by Non-Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland," Journal of Holocaust Education, Vol.7, Nos.1&2, 1998, pp.19-44. Published by Frank Cass, London.
- ^ Edward Victor, "Ghettos and Other Jewish Communities." Judaica Philatelic. Accessed June 20, 2011.
External links
Media related to Błonie at Wikimedia Commons
- Official town webpage
- Jewish Community in Błonie on Virtual Shtetl
52°12′N 20°37′E / 52.200°N 20.617°E
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