Place in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
Tomaszow Lubelski
[t??ma?uf lu?b?lsk?i]
is a town in south-eastern
Poland
with 19,365 inhabitants (2017).
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Situated in the
Lublin Voivodeship
, near
Roztocze National Park
, it is the capital of
Tomaszow Lubelski County
.
History
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The town was founded at the end of the 16th century by
Jan Zamoyski
as Jelitowo. It is known by its current name since 1613 when it was renamed after Zamoyski's son,
Tomasz
. It obtained its city charter in 1621. It was administratively located in the
Bełz Voivodeship
in the
Lesser Poland Province
of Poland. The area around the city saw serious fighting in 1914 during
World War I
.
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On September 17?26, 1939, during the joint German-Soviet
invasion of Poland
which started
World War II
, the
Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski
was fought between Poland and Germany. The town was bombed by the Germans and eventually found itself under
German occupation
. The town's
Jewish
community, which numbered over 5,600 in 1939 at the start of the war, was persecuted by the occupiers in the
Holocaust
. The Nazi Germans first placed the Jews in a ghetto established in the town, then exterminated them in 1942 at
Beł?ec extermination camp
located a few km. south of the town. The Jewish community ceased to exist.
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In 1975?1998, the town was administratively located in the
Zamo?? Voivodeship
.
Education
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In the town there are two faculties of
Catholic University of Lublin
(Legal and Economic Sciences).
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It has two high schools (Bartosz Głowacki High School and Władysław Sikorski High School), three technical colleges, two
gymnasiums
and two primary schools.
Culture
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International Folk Festival Roztocze
is a popular annual music festival organized since 1990. Since 2008 the town council organizes reconstructions of
Battle of Tomaszow
.
Sports
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Tomaszow is the home for the
football
team
Tomasovia
.
Media
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There are two main newspapers published weekly in Tomaszow Lubelski. First of them,
ReWizje Tomaszowskie
, is financed by the town council. Second of them,
Tygodnik Tomaszowski
, belongs to a private company.
Twin towns
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Tomaszow Lubelski is twinned with:
Notable people
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- Mordechai Yosef Leiner
(1801?1854), Hasidic thinker
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
, (1787?1859), Hasidic thinker
- Joanna Pacuła
(born 1957), actress
- Leon Pinsker
(1821?1891), Zionist activist
- Zygmunt Sochan
(1909?1998), footballer and member of the
Polish resistance movement in World War II
- Monika Skinder
(born 2001), cross-country skier
- Marek Zub
(born 1964), football manager
- Wojciech ?ukowski
(born 1964), member of the parliament,
Law and Justice
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