Tomaszów Lubelski

Tomaszów Lubelski is a town in southeastern Poland. Once it belonged to the former province Zamość 1975 to 1998, it is allocated since 1999 the Lublin Voivodeship. Tomaszów Lubelski is the capital of the powiat Tomaszowski ( Lublin ) and counted in 2006 20,118 inhabitants.

History

The city was founded at the beginning of the 17th century through January Zamoyski and has been known since 1613 under its current name. 1621 she received a city charter.

1772 she came to Austrian Galicia, but came after the Napoleonic Wars in 1809 as part of the circle Zamość to the Duchy of Warsaw and was assigned to the Russian Congress Poland after the Congress of Vienna. During the First World War, found in 1915 in the vicinity of the place heavy fighting between Russian and Austrian troops instead.

Until the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the city had a significant Jewish population. Near the town of Belzec extermination camp was located during the German military occupation of Poland ( 1941-1942 ).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Joanna Pacula ( born 1957 ), actress
• Leon Pinsker (1821-1881), pioneer of Zionism and the authors of Scripture auto-emancipation
• Moshe Wertman (1924-2011), Israeli politician
• Mordechai Josef Leiner (1802-1854), Hasidic rabbinical scholar and founder of the Izhbitza - Radzyn dynasty of Hasidism.