Maków Mazowiecki

File:Nagrobek noskowskiego.jpg tombstone of Jędrzej Noskowski, starost of Maków, in the Corpus Christi church]]

The town obtained its town charter in 1421. It was a Polish royal town, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

A battle was fought nearby on August 19, 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War.{{cite journal|last=Kowalski|first=Andrzej|year=1995|title=Miejsca pamięci związane z Bitwą Warszawską 1920 r.|journal=Niepodległość i Pamięć|language=pl|publisher=Muzeum Niepodległości w Warszawie|issue=2/2 (3)|page=141|issn=1427-1443}}

Before 1939 about 7,000 people lived in Maków, including 4,000 Poles and 3,000 Jews. During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the Einsatzgruppe V entered the town on September 10–11, 1939, commit atrocities against the population.{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=IPN|page=54}} The Einsatzgruppe V immediately carried out searches of Polish offices and organizations.Wardzyńska, p. 112 Medicines from pharmacies and local supplies of grain, sugar and rice were confiscated for the German Army. Under German occupation the name was Germanized to Mackeim. In Maków, the Germans operated a concentration camp for ill and disabled people from the region.Wardzyńska, p. 236 In February 1940, the Germans murdered 560 people from the camp in a forest near Wyszogród, while 50 people from the local hospital were murdered in the nearby village of Grzanka. The Jewish community was murdered by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust. Some killings were done in the town; thousands of Maków Mazowiecki Jews were murdered at the Auschwi{{Cite web |last=page |first=Jessica Steinberg NEW! Get email alerts when this author publishes a new article You will receive email alerts from this author Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author Manage alert preferences on your profile |title=Mainstream Israeli artists make an album of new music to connect youth to Holocaust |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/mainstream-israeli-artists-make-music-to-connect-youth-to-holocaust/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}tz concentration camp. The Germans also operated a forced labour camp in the town from 1941 to 1944.{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=2600|title=Arbeitserziehungslager Maków Mazowiecki|website=Bundesarchiv.de|accessdate=13 February 2021|language=de}}

While a [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005156 secret protocol] had been struck prior to World War II between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that laid plans to split up Poland between them, Germany later abrogated this agreement and struck deeply into Russian territory. The Germans occupied Maków Mazowiecki from September 1939 to April 1945. In January 1945, heavy fighting and artillery barrages destroyed 90% of the town's buildings.

{{Historical populations|align=left|1921|6198|1931|6645|2010|9755

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• David Azrieli - Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• Kamil Majkowski - Polish football player
• Hyman G. Rickover - admiral in the US Navy, born in Maków in 1900. His leadership in the nuclear propulsion and power generation was instrumental in developing a culture where safety was paramount.
• Leib Langfus - Rabbi from Makow, later murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His diary of his deportation and time in Auschwitz-Birkenau are considered one of the most valuable Holocaust era eyewitness testimonies.
• Mordechai Ciechanower (1924-2025) - Holocaust survivor (Auschwitz, Stutthof, and other camps), public speaker and author. He dedicated the latter part of his life to Holocaust education through writing, accompanying Israeli high school students and soldiers to Holocaust sites in Poland, and giving testimony through public speaking. His autobiography, "A Star Gleams in the Distance,” was published in Hebrew, English, German and Polish.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Dy0-MhDCMQPrcWcy&v=qldozTTkkys&feature=youtu.be |title=Lone Melody - The Story of Mordechai Chechanover |date=2019-05-13 |last=Yad Vashem |access-date=2025-02-10 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Jessica |title=Mainstream Israeli artists make an album of new music to connect youth to Holocaust |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/mainstream-israeli-artists-make-music-to-connect-youth-to-holocaust/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Times of Israel |language=en-US}} In 2014, he was the subject of a film titled, “Der Dachdecker von Birkenau (“The Roofer of Birkenau”). Ciechanower also helped the Polish underground while in Auschwitz.{{Citation |last=Kuhn |first=Johannes |title=Der Dachdecker von Birkenau |date=2014-01-27 |type=Documentary |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4449384/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |others=Mordechai Ciechanower |publisher=Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie e. V.}}{{Cite web |last=Aderet |first=Ofer |date=February 10, 2025 |title='I Saw Women Carrying Babies to Their Deaths': Auschwitz Survivor Mordechai Ciechanower Dies at 100 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-02-10/ty-article-magazine/.premium/i-saw-women-carrying-babies-to-their-deaths-auschwitz-survivor-dies-at-100/00000194-ef7c-ddd7-a9de-fffd46d90000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Ofer+Aderet&utm_term=20250210-15:17 |url-status=live |access-date=February 10, 2025 |website=Haaretz}} After his liberation, he disguised himself as a member of the British Army’s Jewish Brigade and made his way to Palestine where he fought in Israel’s War of Independence.

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• [http://www.makowmazowiecki.pl/ Official town webpage]
• [http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/MapCenter/Map.aspx?TextLatitude=51.636735559295&TextLongitude=21.9336515854258&TextAltitude=8&TextSelectedEntity=9473231&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Small&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=mak%C3%B3w+mazowiecki&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=51.636735559295%3B21.9336515854258%3B8%3B9473231%3BRyki%2C+Lubelskie%2C+Poland%3BSmall%3BComprehensive Location via Encarta Maps]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051214104348/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/maps/ "Mapping the Holocaust" -- pictures Soviet and German officers dividing Poland]
• [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/makow-mazowiecki/ Jewish Community in Maków Mazowiecki] on Virtual Shtetl

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