At the end of July 1944 the Red Army's 2nd Guards Tank Army, under the command of Alexei Radzievsky, routed the German 73rd Infantry Division at Garwolin, capturing its commander, Friedrich Franek.
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In distance of 5 km from town railway route Warszawa-Lublin proceeds; station Garwolin is placed in nearby village Wola Rębkowska.
The origins of Monar lie in the centre which was opened on 15 October 1978 in Gloskow near Garwolin, by Marek Kotański.
Karl Freudenthal Kreishauptmann of powiat Garwolin responsible for murder of Jews and Poles, and for deportation of local Jewish population to the ghetto.
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At the end of July, during the Lublin–Brest Offensive, he joined battle at Garwolin with the Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Army under the command of Alexei Radzievsky, when the German forces were routed and Franek himself was captured.
He was born Kazimierz Łukoski in 1890, in the village of Sokół near Garwolin, in the Siedlce Governorate of the Russian Empire (in the Masovian Voivodeship of present-day Poland).
Leon Wyczółkowski (11 April 1852, Huta Miastowska near Garwolin – 27 December 1936, Warsaw) was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the period.