Maków Mazowiecki

Maków Mazowiecki
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Maków Mazowiecki Maków Mazowiecki
Coordinates: 52°52′N 21°6′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Maków
Gmina	Maków Mazowiecki (urban gmina)
Town rights	1421
Government
• Mayor	Tadeusz Ciak
Area
• Total	10.3 km2 (4.0 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	10,262
• Density	1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	06-200
Area code	+48 29
Vehicle registration	WMA
Website	www.makowmazowiecki.pl

Maków Mazowiecki [ˈmakuf mazɔˈvʲɛt͡skʲi] (German: Mackeim) 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. Some killings were done in the town; thousands of Makow Mazowiecki Jews were murdered at Auschwitz.

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. The Germans occupied Maków Mazowiecki from September 1939 to April 1945. in January 1945, heavy fighting and artillery barrages destroyed 90% of the town's buildings.

Notable people

• David Azrieli - Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• Kamil Majkowski - football forward in Legia Warszawa
• Hyman G. Rickover - admiral in the US Navy, born in Maków in 1900. His leadership in the nuclear propulsion and power generation was instrumental in developing a culture where safety was paramount.
• Leib Langfus - Rabbi from Makow, later murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His diary of his deportation and time in Auschwitz-Birkenau are considered one of the most valuable Holocaust era eyewitness testimonies.
• Mayer Cyjon Kohn

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