Mordy

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Field	Value
name	Mordy
image_skyline	Mordy - zespół kościoła par. - kościół p.w. św. Michała Archanioła MK2.jpg
imagesize	250px
image_caption	Church of Saint Archangel Michael
image_shield	POL Mordy COA.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	top
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Masovian Voivodeship
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Siedlce
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Mordy
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Łukasz Albin Wawryniuk
established_title	Established
established_date	15th century
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	1488
area_total_km2	4.54
population_as_of	2006
population_total	1840
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	08-140
area_code	+48 25
blank_name	Car plates
blank_info	WSI
blank1_name_sec2	Voivodeship road
blank1_info_sec2	[[File:DW698-PL.svg
website	http://www.mordy.pl
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History

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In the early 15th century, Mordy was a possession of Koszycki family. In 1408 Jan Koszycki founded a parish church in Mordy. It was a private town of the Korczewski family and then the Hlebowicz family. In 1563, a synod of the Polish Brethren was held in Mordy,

The town was annexed by Austria in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. After the Polish victory in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, it became part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and after the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland. The town saw an influx of Jews as a result of Russian discriminatory policies (see Pale of Settlement). After World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of Mordy.

Jewish community

After the First World War there were approximately 1,800 Jews in Mordy - more than half of its population. They were mostly employed in trade and peddling, while a few were tradesmen - mainly tailors and cobblers. The community ran a fund for loans underwritten by The Joint. There were several Hasidic Shtiebels in town, as well as Zionist parties such as the Bund and Agudat Yisrael. There was a Jewish public library and a Jewish culture club.

In 1920 Polish troops killed several leaders of the Bund, accused of supporting the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War.

The German army invaded Mordy in September 1939, but left after two days. The Red Army replaced the Germans only to retreat after some two weeks, and Germans re-occupied the town. In the following months Mordy, being close to the Bug River, served as a transit point for thousands of Jews who tried to move into the area controlled by the Soviets. Moshe Gershon Levenberg, a former chairman of the community, served as the head of the Judenrat, which was established in autumn of 1939. Many Jews were recruited as forced labor in a camp near Mordy, to drain swamps, together with Jews from other nearby towns. During 1940 an influx of Jewish refugees into the town began, and at the year's end, the number of Jews rose to about 2,000. In the spring of 1941, five-hundred Jews were brought to the camp from Warsaw.

In November 1941, a Jewish ghetto was established with 3,360 residents. At the end of 1941, Jewish refugees were brought into the ghetto, and by May 1942 the number of inhabitants rose to 3,817. At the beginning of 1942 the SS executed some Jews who smuggled food. During May and June 1942, some 450 Jewish refugees arrived from Łódź, Kraków and other places. The Mordy ghetto was liquidated on August 22, 1942. All residents, about 4,500 people were transferred to Siedlce, then deported to Treblinka extermination camp together with Jews from other places in the area.

Transport

Mordy lies on voivodeship road 698 which connects it to Siedlce to the west and to Łosice to the east.

Mordy has a station on the Siedlce-Białystok railway line.

References

"Oficjalny Spis Pocztowych Numerów Adresowych".
. (1885). "Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich".
Krzysztofik, Robert. (2007). "Lokacje miejskie na obszarze Polski. Dokumentacja geograficzno-historyczna". Wydawnictwo [[Uniwersytet Śląski.
[http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=575 Yad Vashem Ghettos Encyclopedia (Hebrew text)]

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