Pruszków

Coordinates: 52°10′N 20°48′E / 52.167°N 20.800°E / 52.167; 20.800
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Pruszków
Central part of the city
Central part of the city
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
05-800, 05-802, 05-803,
05-804
Area code+48 22
Vehicle registrationWPR
Websitehttp://www.pruszkow.pl/

Pruszków

Warszawa Voivodeship (1975–1998). Pruszków is the capital of Pruszków County, located along the western edge of the Warsaw
urban area.

In the 1990s and 2000s the city was synonymous with the "Pruszków gang", one of two major organised crime groups in the country.[

purpose built indoor velodrome
.

History

Building of the Management Board of ZNTK (Railway Repair Works) in Pruszków

Pruszków was incorporated as a town in 1916 during

German and Russian forces took place in Pruszków on 12–18 October 1914 (part of Battle of the Vistula River). Despite the initial success of the German forces on 12 October, they were push-backed out of town after successful Russian counter-attack on 14th. An intense artillery fire by both sides caused severe damages to many buildings in Pruszków including train station, power plant, and two churches. In August 1915 Pruszków was taken by the German forces without a fight. Within interwar Poland, it was administratively located in the Warsaw County in the Warsaw Voivodeship
.

World War II

Cemetery of Polish soldiers killed during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939

The city was

Jewish ghetto in Pruszków, in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation.[5] The ghetto was liquidated on 31 January 1941, when all its 1,400[6]–3,000 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.[7][8][9][10]

Polish insurgents in Pruszków in October 1944 after Warsaw's capitulation
Historic sights of Pruszków (examples)
Sokół Palace
Church of the Immaculate Conception
St. Casimir Church
Potulicki Palace

During the 1944

Auschwitz, 12,000 to Ravensbrück and 8,700 to Mauthausen.[11] They included people from a variety of social classes and occupations (government officials, scholars, artists, physicians, merchants, and blue-collar workers), in varying physical conditions (the injured, the sick, invalids, and pregnant women), and of various ages from infants only a few weeks old to the elderly, aged 86 or more. In a few cases, these were also people of different ethnic backgrounds including Jews living on "Aryan papers."[12] The Germans murdered several Polish Catholic monks and nuns in the camp.[13][14][15]

Following the

Soviet westward offensive, on 26 March 1945, the 16 members of the Polish Underground Government were invited by the Russians for talks, to a house in Pruszków on Armii Krajowej Street. They were captured by the Soviet NKVD agents, transported to USSR, imprisoned, tortured and sentenced in Moscow during the so-called Trial of the Sixteen
.

Post-war Poland

After World War II, Pruszków became one of Masovia's largest industrial centers. Due to its proximity to Warsaw, it is now home to several factories and companies, including

Daewoo Electronics, L'Oréal Cosmetics
as well as logistic centers. It is also an important sports center, with a sports gymnasium, soccer stadium and a cycling course.

Crime

The most well known of the

A2 motorway between Konin and Poznań in September 2011.[18]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
192115,132—    
193123,703+56.6%
201056,929+140.2%
202062,623+10.0%
Source: [2][19][20][21][22]

Sports

BGŻ Arena
indoor velodrome

The city's local football team is Znicz Pruszków. It plays in the second division since 2023 where they previously competed between 2007-2010 and 2016-2017. Robert Lewandowski played for Znicz from 2006 to 2008, whereas Pruszków-born Jacek Gmoch and Radosław Majewski also played in Znicz: Gmoch from 1953 to 1958, Majewski from 2002 to 2006.[23]

The city has two professional basketball teams: women's

Znicz Basket Pruszków
.

The

Pruszków Arena is a modern indoor velodrome
.

Buildings and structures

256 metres tall chimney of former "Pruszków II Power Plant", now used as radio tower.

Education

  • Physical Culture and Tourism High School (Wyższa Szkoła Kultury Fizycznej i Turystyki)

Notable people

Childhood home of Polish poet Jan Lechoń

References

  1. ^ "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 17 August 2022. Data for territorial unit 1421021.
  2. ^ a b Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IX (in Polish). Warszawa. 1888. p. 105.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Tworki is an administrative part of Pruszków today
  4. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 244.
  5. ^ "The War Against The Jews." The Holocaust Chronicle, 2009. Chicago, Il. Accessed 21 June 2011.
  6. Museum of the History of the Polish Jews  (in English), as well as "Getta Żydowskie," by Gedeon
    ,  (in Polish) and "Ghetto List" by Michael Peters at www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm  (in English). Accessed 12 July 2011.
  7. ^ Warsaw Ghetto, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C.
  8. ^ Richard C. Lukas, Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust, University Press of Kentucky 1989 – 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944, University Press of Kentucky, 1986, Google Print, p.13.
  9. ^ Gunnar S. Paulsson, "The Rescue of Jews by Non-Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland," Journal of Holocaust Education, Vol.7, Nos.1&2, 1998, pp.19-44. Published by Frank Cass, London.
  10. ^ Edward Victor, "Ghettos and Other Jewish Communities." Archived 9 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine Judaica Philatelic. Accessed 20 June 2011.
  11. ^ a b "Transporty z obozu Dulag 121". Muzeum Dulag 121 (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  12. ^ Księga Pamięci. Transporty Polaków z Warszawy do KL Auschwitz 1940-1944 (Memorial Book: Transports of Poles from Warsaw to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940-1944. Archived 26 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. On the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. Accessed 13 July 2011.
  13. ^ "Józef Cisek" (in Polish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Janina Kamilk" (in Polish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Bronisława Rochowicz" (in Polish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  16. ^ "Head of the Polish MI on the priorities and key strategies of the Ministry – News – Ministry of the Interior and Administration". Msw.gov.pl. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  17. ^ Klaus Bachmann (1 January 1970). ""Nikos" Skotarczak starb bei Frühstück im Nachtclub: Gründervater der Auto-Mafia erschossen | Berliner Zeitung". Berliner-zeitung.de. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  18. ^ Kacper Guzek (29 September 2011), Policja rozbiła gang samochodowy z Wołomina. Widowiskowa akcja na autostradzie (in Polish), Super Express: "Kronika kryminalna"
  19. ^ Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Vol. I. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1925. p. 185.
  20. ^ Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (in Polish). Vol. X. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1932. p. 139.
  21. ^ Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.
  22. ^ Rocznik Demograficzny 2021 (in Polish and English). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2021. p. 93.
  23. ^ "Bajka o Robercie Lewandowskim". Sport.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 14 February 2016.

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