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11 unusual facts about Lublin Voivodeship


Antoni Popiel

Antoni Popiel (13 June 1865 Szczakowa, Galicia (now Jaworzno) - 7 July 1910 Lubien near Lviv) was a Polish sculptor.

Baczków

Baczków, Lublin Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wola Mysłowska, Łuków County, Poland

Cichy

Cichy, Lublin Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tarnogród

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.

Henryk Pachulski

Of noble birth, he was born the son of a surveyor and forester, in Łazy, near Siedlce, Poland.

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).

Poniatowa

By the early 16th century, Poniatowa was under the authority of a Castellan from nearby Wąwolnica.

Richard Stöhr

Stöhr had one sibling, a sister named Hedwig (birth date unknown) who died in Modliborzyce in the custody of the Nazis on January 2, 1942.

Ruthenian Voivodeship

Since these times the name Ruś Czerwona is recorded, translated as "Red Ruthenia" ("Czerwień" means red in Slavic languages, or from Polish village Czermno), applied to a territory extended up to Dniester River, with priority gradually transferred to Przemyśl.

Satan in Goray

The story describes the Jewish messianic cult that arose in the village of Goraj and the effects of the 17th century faraway false messiah Shabbatai Zvi on the local population.

Włodawa

Situated next to the Sobibor extermination camp, Włodawa Jews were mostly rounded up and deported there, or killed locally in any one of the German arbeitslagers (workcamps) such as the one at Adampol.


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.