Biała Rawska
Biała Rawska [' b ʲ awa ' rafska ] listen? / I is a town in Poland, in the region of Łódź. It lies on the River Białka.
History
The first mention of a settlement dates from 24 August 1295th in 1313 was the site of the property of Siemowita I., a son Bolesław II Between 1472 and 1498 the town received its town charter. The 17th and 18th centuries were a time for the City of decline. 1777 lived only 186 people in the town. As a result of the third partition of Poland the city 1795-1807 belonged to Prussia, then to the Duchy of Warsaw. The population increased from 467 in 1810 to 2,051 in 1900. 1848 a synagogue was built. The population of Biała Rawska consisted of about 3,800 inhabitants, and more than half were Jewish. 1870, affected by the decline of city lost its city rights. In 1916 the city received a primary school. In 1921 there were about 2,700 people in the city and four years later Biała Rawska got back his city law. At the beginning of World War II lived 3,119 people in the city. By the Germans a ghetto for the Jews was built, had to live in which about 6,000 people. 1943, the Jews of the city were first deported to the ghetto in Rawa Mazowiecka and then Treblinka extermination camp by the Nazis, the population of the town was cut in half with it. The liberation of the city from German occupation by the Red Army on 17 January 1945.
Gmina Biała Rawska
The urban and rural commune ( gmina Polish miejsko - wiejska ) Biała Rawska has an area of 209 km ² and 11,500 inhabitants. Related towns are, inter alia, Stara Rawa and Babsk.