Sokołów Małopolski

Sokołów Małopolski
Church in Sokołów Małopolski
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	36-050
Website	http://www.sokolow-mlp.pl

Sokołów Małopolski [sɔˈkɔwuf mawɔˈpɔlskʲi] is a town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 3,962 (2 June 2009).^[1]

Geography

Sokolow Malopolski lies in Sandomierz Basin, 24 kilometers north of Rzeszow, and 11 kilometers from Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport.

History

The history of Sokołów Małopolski starts with a forest settlement, located in once extensive

Following the

In the 17th century, the town was protected by fortifications with five gates and moat. Sokolow has a 17th-century Jewish cemetery, and a parish church (1908–1916). Today, due to numerous wars and fires, there are only buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2010, local villagers helped to clean up the Jewish cemetery, though without the cooperation of local officials who reportedly said they didn't want to cooperate with Jews.[2]

At the time of the German invasion in September, 1939, Sokolow Malopolski's Jewish population was about 1600. The Germans immediately requisitioned Jews for forced labor. In April 1942, the Jewish population, then numbering 3000 because of refugees and others resettled by the Germans in Sokolow Malopolski, was forced into a ghetto. In July, German police shot 30 residents of the ghetto, resettled 200 in a labor camp in Glogow, and moved others to the Rzeszow ghetto where they were sent to the Belzec killing camp in July. Several dozens of Jews who hid from the deportations were murdered later in the year and in the summer of 1943, three Jews and the four Poles hiding them were shot and buried on the grounds of Sokolow Malapolski's elementary school.^[3] The number of the few Jewish survivors is unknown.

References

External links

• Official town webpage
• Old Sokolow Malopolski photographs; taken about 24 years ago.

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