Tyczyn

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Field	Value
name	Tyczyn
image_skyline	Tyczyn (Pałac Wodzickich) 02.jpg
image_caption	Wodzicki Palace
imagesize	250px
image_shield	POL Tyczyn COA.svg
image_flag	POL Tyczyn flag.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	[[File:POL województwo podkarpackie flag.svg
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Rzeszów
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Tyczyn
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Janusz Błotnicki
established_title	Established
established_date	1368
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	1368
area_total_km2	9.67
population_as_of	2006
population_total	3299
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	36-020
area_code	+48 17
registration_plate	RZE
blank_name_sec2	Voivodeship road
blank_info_sec2	[[File:DW878-PL.svg
website	http://www.tyczyn.pl
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Geography

Tyczyn is located in the lower Carpathian foothills, about halfway between the cities of Kraków to the west and Lviv (Lwów) to the east. The center of town is on top of a hill surrounded by numerous farming villages. To the north of town is the Strug River.

History

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In 1368, King Casimir III of Poland granted Bartold Tyczner, a merchant from Moravia, a part of the former royal forest to establish a town. Possibly in the late 14th century, it became a private town of the Pilecki family. The Jews migrated into the area during the 15th and 16th centuries.

The town grew and dominated the area until the mid-17th century when it was destroyed first by a Tatar and later by a Cossack invasion. Following the Partitions of Poland, during the years 1792 to 1918 Tyczyn was part of the Austrian Partition of Poland. During those years the area of Tyczyn came under administrative control of Rzeszów, a larger town and a county seat, some 8 mi north of Tyczyn. Weekly markets and eleven annual fairs were held in Tyczyn in the late 19th century.

Prior to World War II, Tyczyn had a vibrant Jewish shtetl community. During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Tyczyn was captured by the Germans on September 10, 1939. The Jewish residents faced severe restrictions, relocation from their homes to the Rzeszów ghetto, deportations to forced labour and concentration camps, as well as numerous executions. In particular, there is a large mass grave for the Jewish inhabitants who were executed in the forests in the outskirts of the town. George Lucius Salton, a former resident of Tyczyn, estimates that the Nazis reduced Jewish population from approximately 2,000 people to 10 people by end of the war. According to Salton's autobiography, most of the ghetto's population, promised relocation to a large Ukrainian farm, were taken directly to Belzec where they were gassed in the designated gas chambers. On October 15, 1943, the Gestapo carried out a massacre of five Poles, including one woman, as punishment for aiding Jews. Today, sites within the town serve as memorials and learning centers for the Tyczyn's victims of the Holocaust.

Education

Wyższa Szkoła Społeczno-Gospodarcza (Social-Economic High School)

Notable people

Eliezer Schindler, Jewish poet and activist.

References

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References

(2009-06-02). "Population. Size and structure by territorial division". Central Statistical Office Warsaw.
. (1892). "Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XII".
(2002). "World War II came to Tyczyn".
Datner, Szymon. (1968). "Las sprawiedliwych". Książka i Wiedza.

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