Baranów, Lublin Voivodeship
Baranów is a village in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Baranów. It lies approximately north-east of Puławy and north-west of the regional capital Lublin.
The village has a population of 1,672.History
Baranów was founded as a town on the basis of Magdeburg Law in 1544. By the 19th century the town was in economic decline and in 1870 it lost its town status.The first historical mention of the Jewish inhabitants of Baranów comes from records dating from 1621. In 1930 the village had a population of 2071, including 1092 Jews. Under the German occupation of Poland the Jewish population was confined in a ghetto by 1942, then deported to the Sobibor extermination camp and murdered there. Fewer than 25 Baranów Jews survived the war, and the Jewish community was not reestablished in the village afterwards. Except for the remnants of the Jewish cemetery and the name of one of the streets, few traces of the former Jewish presence remain in the village today.
