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3 unusual facts about Rozwadów


Alfons Karpiński

Alfons Karpiński (Rozwadów near Tarnobrzeg, February 20, 1875 – June 6, 1961, Kraków, Poland) was a Polish painter specializing in portraits of women, still-life and foreign landscape of Italy and France.

Battle of Jarosław

The following day in the area between Przemyśl and Rozwadów, the Polish commander had only 10 battalions of infantry, one battalion of engineers and 42 pieces of artillery at his disposal.

Rozwadów

The Rozwadów suburb of Stalowa Wola included a thriving Jewish shtetl prior to World War II, closely associated with the Jewish communities of Tarnobrzeg and other nearby shtetls including Ulanów, Mielec, and Dzików.


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Eugene Lazowski

Łazowski, the Polish 'Schindler', created a fake typhus epidemic in the town of Rozwadow and its vicinity and spared 8,000 Jews from Nazi persecution.


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