Szczuczyn

Coordinates: 53°33′58″N 22°17′6″E / 53.56611°N 22.28500°E / 53.56611; 22.28500
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Szczuczyn
Piarist abbey
Piarist abbey
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
19-230
Vehicle registrationBGR
Websitehttp://www.um.szczuczyn.pl

Szczuczyn [ˈʂt͡ʂut͡ʂɨn] is a town in Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland. As of 2004, it has a population of 3,602.

History

Town center with the monument of Stanisław Antoni Szczuka

The town is located in the north-eastern outskirts of

Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. Stanisław Antoni Szczuka, who died in Warsaw in 1710, was buried in the local Piarist church. In the 18th century the town passed to the powerful Potocki family.[2] Factors that largely contributed to the development of the town were the presence of the school and the location on a trade route connecting Białystok and Königsberg.[2] Among the teachers of the Piarist college were Jakub Falkowski [pl], who then founded the oldest Polish school for deaf people in Warsaw, and Polish philosopher Bronisław Trentowski.[2]

In the Third Partition of Poland, in 1795, it was annexed by Prussia, in 1807 it became part of the newly established, although short-lived, Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it passed to the Russian Partition of Poland. Afterwards it saw a significant influx of Jews from Russia as a result of Russian discriminatory regulations and persecution (see Pale of Settlement). Szczuczyn was one of the sites of Russian executions of Polish insurgents during the January Uprising.[3] On May 15, 1864, one of the last battles of the January Uprising was fought there.[4] During World War I, the town was occupied by Germany, and after the war it became part of Poland when the country regained independence in 1918.

World War II

See also: Szczuczyn pogrom

Some 56% of the town's 4,502 inhabitants were Jews prior to

ghetto, and subsequently sent to Treblinka extermination camp.[7][9]

Sports

The local football club is Wissa Szczuczyn [pl]. It competes in the lower leagues.

Monument of Pope John Paul II

Notable residents

Stanisław Antoni Szczuka is buried there.

References

  1. ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI, Warszawa, 1890, p. 862 (in Polish)
  2. ^ a b c d e f Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI, p. 863
  3. ^ Katalog miejsc pamięci powstania styczniowego w województwie podlaskim, Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami Oddział Białystok, Białystok, 2013, p. 15 (in Polish)
  4. ^ Katalog miejsc pamięci powstania styczniowego w województwie podlaskim, p. 51
  5. ^ Kopstein, Jeffrey S., and Jason Wittenberg. "Deadly communities: Local political milieus and the persecution of Jews in occupied Poland." Comparative Political Studies 44.3 (2011): 259-283.
  6. ^ Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warszawa, 2009, p. 54 (in Polish)
  7. ^ a b Yad Vashem Ghetto Encyclopedia: Szczuczyn, Yad Vashem
  8. ^ Daniel Boćkowski, Na zawsze razem. Białostocczyzna i Łomżyńskie w polityce radzieckiej w czasie II wojny światowej (IX 1939 – VIII 1944), Wydawnictwo Neriton, Instytut Historii PAN, Warszawa, 2005, p. 204 (in Polish)
  9. ^ The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: Seredina-Buda-Z, Shmuel Spector & Geoffrey Wigoder, page 1276

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