Mogielnica

Town hall

Coat of arms

Mogielnica

Coordinates: 51°41′23″N 20°43′23″E / 51.68972°N 20.72306°ECoordinates: 51°41′23″N 20°43′23″E / 51.68972°N 20.72306°E

Country

Poland

Established

1249

Town rights

1317

Government

• Mayor

Sławomir Chmielewski

Area

• Total

12.98 km² (5.01 sq mi)

Population (2006)

• Total

2,461

• Density

190/km² (490/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

05-640

Area code(s)

+48 48

Car plates

WGR

Website

http://www.mogielnica.pl

Mogielnica [mɔɡʲɛlˈɲit͡sa] is a town in Grójec County in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,475 inhabitants (2004). It is a seat of Gmina Mogielnica (urban-rural gmina administrative unit) with an area of 141.56 square kilometres (54.7 sq mi).

In World War I, the Tsarist regime, in reprisal for its own catastrophic failures in battle with Germany, expelled the Jews of Mogielnica. The Jewish paper, Haynt, published in Congress Poland, informed briefly in its May 23, 1915 issue (under the Russian military censorship): "The entire Jewish population was deported from Mogielnica, roughly 5,000 people. They were given a short period of time in which to liquidate their businesses." Some of the Jews returned to Mogielnica, once Poland re-emerged as a sovereign state. In foreign languages Mogielnica is also referred to as Mogelnitsa, Mogelnitse, Mogelnitza and/or Mogielnicy.

In 1940, during the Nazi Occupation of Poland, German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Mogielnica, in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation. The ghetto was liquidated on February 28, 1942, when all its 1,500 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). From there, most victims were sent to Treblinka extermination camp. The Nazis demolished the 18th-century Jewish cemetery located on the left side of the road to Grójec near Przylesie Street and used its headstones for pavement. A monument now stands at its place.

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