Wyszków


Wyszków is a city in Poland with 26,500 inhabitants. It is the capital of Wyszków County. Wyszków is in Masovian Voivodeship ; previously it was in Warsaw Voivodeship and Ostrołęka Voivodeship.

Description

The village of Wyszków was first documented in 1203. The town was founded in 1502. It was destroyed during the Second Northern War in 1655–1660, when it lost its significance in the region. Industry developed after 1897, when the Pilawa-Tluszcz-Ostrołęka railway was built.

Jews in Wyszków

Before World War II half of Wyszków's population of 9,000 were Jewish; after the war there were none. On 14 September 1997 a memorial to Holocaust victims was unveiled in Wyszków. It is made of reclaimed Jewish gravestones that had been removed from the site in 1939 by German forces, who used them as paving stones and to build the local Gestapo headquarters. Scores of these desecrated tombstones were recovered and incorporated as part of the monument.
Wyszków was the birthplace of Mordechaj Anielewicz in 1919.

Wyszków in Culture

Wyszków was the subject of the song Wyszków Tonie by Polish rock band Elektryczne Gitary.

Notable people from Wyszków

Twin towns — sister cities

Wyszków is twinned with: