Michów (Michów)
Michów is a village in Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Michów. It lies approximately 21 km west of Lubartów and 36 km north-west of the regional capital Lublin.
The village has a current population of 1,746.
Soon after the Nazi invasion of the town in 1939, more than 1,700 Michów Jews and another 700 dwellers of Łysoboki were taken to the ghetto in Łuków nearby. On June 6, 1942, this group was dispatched to Opole Lubelskie, from which they were most probably deported to the death camp in Sobibór in May 1942. Another group of Jews from Michów were loaded on wagons and taken to the railway station in Klementowice, from which they were sent to both Sobibór and Majdanek in May 1942. The 2,000 Jews of Michów ceased to exist and the Jewish community was never reconstituted.
The village has a current population of 1,746.
Soon after the Nazi invasion of the town in 1939, more than 1,700 Michów Jews and another 700 dwellers of Łysoboki were taken to the ghetto in Łuków nearby. On June 6, 1942, this group was dispatched to Opole Lubelskie, from which they were most probably deported to the death camp in Sobibór in May 1942. Another group of Jews from Michów were loaded on wagons and taken to the railway station in Klementowice, from which they were sent to both Sobibór and Majdanek in May 1942. The 2,000 Jews of Michów ceased to exist and the Jewish community was never reconstituted.
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Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden.
Currency / Language
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| PLN | Polish złoty | zÅ‚ | 2 |
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| PL | Polish language |