Garwolin
| Garwolin | |||
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 Garwolin
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| Coordinates: 51°54′N 21°38′E / 51.900°N 21.633°E | |||
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Masovian | ||
| County | Garwolin County | ||
| Gmina | Garwolin (urban gmina) | ||
| Town rights | 15th century | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Tadeusz Mikulski | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 22.08 km2 (8.53 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2009) | |||
| • Total | 16,710 | ||
| • Density | 760/km2 (2,000/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 08-400 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 25 | ||
| Car plates | WG | ||
| Website | http://www.garwolin.pl | ||
Coordinates: 51°54′N 21°37′E / 51.900°N 21.617°E
Garwolin [ɡarˈvɔlʲin] is a town on the Wilga river in eastern Poland, capital of Garwolin County, situated in the southeast part of the Garwolin plateau in Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999, before: Siedlce Voivodeship), 62 km southeast of Warsaw, 100 km northwest of Lublin. There are about 16,000 inhabitants in the town.
Traces of settlement on terrains of present days boundaries of Garwolin are more than 2000 years old. It is believed that Garwolin received its city charter in 1423, but the exact date is unknown; it is almost certain that the document from 1423 was only acknowledgement of before-stated city laws. In time of the Deluge casualties exceeded 90%.
During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland, about 70% of the city was destroyed. The town and the powiat were administered by Kreishauptmann Karl Freudenthal, who was responsible for the murder of more than 1000 inhabitants, the deportation of several thousand local Poles to Nazi concentration camps and slave labor in Nazi Germany, and the transfer of the local Jews to various ghettos in the region. For his war crimes, Freudenthal was sentenced to death by the Polish underground, and the sentence was carried out by the Home Army on 5 July 1944, as part of Operacja Główki ("Operation Heads").
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