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unusual facts about Baranów, Lublin Voivodeship


David Shukman

He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, whom he is named after, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Poland, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom.


Gmina Baranów, Masovian Voivodeship

Baranów is the most possible location for the new Warsaw Airport - planned as the biggest hub for Central and Eastern Europe.

Józef Padewski

In 1913 he finished secondary school in Krasnystaw, Lublin Voivodeship and, along with a wave of Polish workers, emigrated to Detroit, where he completed his secondary education and learned the English language.

Lublin Voivodeship

Before the war, there were 300,000 Jews living in the region, which became the site of the Majdanek and Belzec concentration camps as well as several labour camps (Trawniki, Poniatowa, Budzyn, Puławy, Zamość, Biała Podlaska, and the Lublin work camps Lindenstraße 7 (Lipowa Street), Flugplatz, and Sportplatz) which produced military supplies for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe).

Teofila Ludwika Zasławska

Lubomirskis owned several palaces where they lived, all of them designed or redesigned by the royal architect Tylman van Gameren, including palaces in Lublin, Warsaw, Lubartów, and the Baranów Sandomierski Castle in Baranów.


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