Maków Mazowiecki

Maków Mazowiecki
Orzyc river in Maków
Coat of arms
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Maków
Gmina	Maków Mazowiecki (urban gmina)
Town rights	1421
Government
• Mayor	Janusz Jankowski
Area
• Total	10.3 km2 (4.0 sq mi)
Population  (2006)
• Total	9,880
• Density	960/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	06-200
Area code	+48 29
Car plates	WMA
Website	http://www.makowmazowiecki.pl

Maków Mazowiecki [ˈmakuf mazɔˈvʲɛt͡skʲi] is a town in Poland, in the Masovian Voivodship. It is the powiat capital of Maków County (or Powiat of Maków). Its population is 10,850.

The town obtained its town charter in 1421. Before 1939 about 7000 people lived in Maków, including 3000 Jews and 4000 Poles. The Jewish community was murdered during the Nazi German occupation, in the Holocaust.

While a secret protocol had been struck prior to World War II between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that laid plans to split up Poland between them, Germany later abrogated this agreement and struck deeply into Russian territory. In the course of Maków Mazowiecki being seized from the Germans by a counter-attacking Red Army in January 1945, heavy fighting and artillery barrages destroyed 90% of the town's buildings.

Notable people

• Hyman G. Rickover - admiral in the US Navy, born in Maków in 1900
• Kamil Majkowski - football forward in Legia Warszawa

External links

• Official town webpage
• Location via Encarta Maps
• "Mapping the Holocaust" -- pictures Soviet and German officers dividing Poland
• Jewish Community in Maków Mazowiecki on Virtual Shtetl