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Town Yiddish Name [1] [2] Pre-Holocaust Jewish population Notes Hebrew Latin Antopal: אנטיפאָליע Antipolye 1,792 (1921) Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated.
Map showing percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905. A shtetl is defined by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern as "an East European market town in private possession of a Polish magnate, inhabited mostly but not exclusively by Jews" and from the 1790s onward and until 1915 shtetls were also "subject to Russian bureaucracy", [7] as the Russian Empire had annexed the ...
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
Narewka (Belarusian: На́раўка, romanized: Narawka) is a village in eastern Poland, with its population estimated at 935 residents (as of 2011). [1] It is located in Gmina Narewka, Hajnówka County, within Podlaskie Voivodeship. [2] The village is located near Poland's border with Belarus, and is situated on the river Narewka.
The Polish village of Miejsce Odrzańskie has a very strange claim to fame: For nearly 10 years, every single child born in the town has been a girl. But the town's mayor, Rajmund Frischko, has a ...
Wietrzychowice [vjɛtʂɨxɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Izbica Kujawska, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. [ 1 ]
Girone was born in the village of Yanov in eastern Poland in 1912 and moved with her family as a child to Hamburg in northern Germany. ... She always said to me, ‘Always have a purpose in life ...