Staszów ' is a town in Poland

Poland

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, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, about 54 km southeast of Kielce

Kielce

Kielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...

. It is the capital of Staszów County

Staszów County

Staszów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Staszów, which...

. Population is 15,108 (2010).

Demography

According to the 2011 Poland census, there were 15,108 people residing in Staszów town, of whom 48.3% were male and 51.7% were female. In the town, the population was spread out with 19% under the age of 18, 38.2% from 18 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older.

style="text-align:left" |Table 1. Population level of town in 2010 — by age group

SPECIFICATION					Measure unit	POPULATION (by age group in 2010)
						TOTAL	0-4	5-9	10-14	15-19	20-24	25-29	30-34	35-39	40-44	45-49	50-54	55-59	60-64	65-69	70-74	75-79	80-84	85 +
I.	|TOTAL				person	15,108	731	697	854	1,039	1,051	1,181	1,130	976	977	954	1,256	1,309	1,168	619	499	330	182	155
	—	|of which in			%	100	4.8	4.6	5.7	6.9	7	7.8	7.5	6.5	6.5	6.3	8.3	8.7	7.7	4.1	3.3	2.2	1.2	1
	1.	|BY SEX
		A.	|Males		person	7,294	373	346	449	530	521	646	605	488	472	457	573	594	525	266	204	139	73	33
			—	|of which in	%	48.3	2.5	2.3	3	3.5	3.4	4.3	4	3.2	3.1	3	3.8	3.9	3.5	1.8	1.4	0.9	0.5	0.2
		B.	|Females		person	7,814	358	351	405	509	530	535	525	488	505	497	683	715	643	353	295	191	109	122
			—	|of which in	%	51.7	2.4	2.3	2.7	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.2	3.3	3.3	4.5	4.7	4.3	2.3	2	1.3	0.7	0.8

style="text-align:left" |Table 2. Population level of town in 2010 — by sex

SPECIFICATION						Measure unit	POPULATION (by sex in 2010)
							TOTAL	Males	Females
I.	|TOTAL					person	15,108	7,294	7,814
	—	|of which in				%	100	48.3	51.7
	1.	|BY AGE GROUP
		A.	|At pre-working age			person	2,868	1,490	1,378
			—	|of which in		%	19	9.9	9.1
		B.	|At working age. grand total			person	9,812	5,089	4,723
			—	|of which in		%	65	33.7	31.3
			a.	|at mobile working age		person	5,768	2,940	2,828
				—	|of which in	%	38.2	19.5	18.7
			b.	|at non-mobile working age		person	4,044	2,149	1,895
				—	|of which in	%	26.8	14.2	12.5
		C.	|At post-working age			person	2,428	715	1,713
			—	|of which in		%	16.1	4.7	11.4

Districts

City consists of 10 districts:

• Osiedle Oględowska - Złodziejówka (Thief Village)
• Osiedle Ogrody (The Gardens)
• Osiedle Północ (North town)
• Osiedle Wschód - Pipała (East town)
• Stare Miasto (Old town alias Downtown)
• Staszówek
• Golejów
• Radzików
• Pocieszka
• Małopolskie

Black Sunday

Staszów is one of the many sites in occupied Poland where Jews were exterminated en masse by Germans. The famous Sefer Staszów (The Staszów Book) (Sefer Stashev) contains eyewitness accounts of life in the ghetto, the mass extermination on Black Sunday (Nov 8, 1942), and the subsequent horrors.
According to Sefer Staszów, the night before Black Sunday, Obersturmfuehrer Schild ordered the Jewish policemen to instruct all the Jews in town to be present by 8 o'clock in the morning at the marketplace. Anybody who did not obey this order would be shot. By 8 o'clock in the morning about 5,000 Jews, young and old, children and grown-ups, had assembled at the market place in order to begin their march to death. At 10 in the morning, Schild gave the order: “March! And so the people started the march and as soon as they filed into Krakowska Street, the murderers shot into the mass of people, strewing the whole road with innocent victims. Blood ran from the Krakowska street down to the river. The march of the Staszów Jews took them through Szczuczin and Stopnica to Belzec extermination camp

Belzec extermination camp

Belzec, Polish spelling Bełżec , was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust...

. More than 1,000 Jews reached Stopnica. In Niziny village, 9 kilometres from Staszów, a mass grave was dug for 740 victims.

Those who had not come at 8 AM to the marketplace were bestially murdered in their homes. All those killed in Staszów itself on the day of slaughter were buried in a single mass grave at the Jewish Cemetery. Many more Jews, who were retained for hard labor or who had hidden in bunkers, were subsequently killed or shipped to a concentration camp.

Original Jewish Cemetery

Over 175 years old, the Jewish Cemetery was not maintained, and at one point was even replaced without a trace by a playground. The newer Jewish cemetery, two-thirds of a mile from the center of Staszow, was an empty lot. The gravestones had been carted away by the Nazis for use as paving stones on muddy roads and sold to a construction company by municipal authorities after the war when no Jews returned to claim them.

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 paid to have the grounds spruced up, to have a 10-foot Holocaust memorial constructed, to have some 155 Jewish gravestones he discovered in Staszow homes brought back to the cemetery, and to have a marker set up at a Holocaust-era mass grave.

External links

• Official town website
• Map, via mapa.szukacz.pl
• Sefer Staszow English Translation Online
• More about Saving the Stazow Jewish Cemetery http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=7925
• Website devoted to the memory of Staszow Jews who perished in the Holocaust
• A calendar of Jewish history in Staszowie against the background of important events in the history of the city, foundation for the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland
• History of Staszów, Poland and its Jewish Community, Dr. N. M. Gelber, jewishgen.org, an extension of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
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• History of Staszów, staszow.com
• Kosciuszko's Route on Ziemia Staszowska, staszow.com
• The Royal Opponent, Report about operations of the 71st Independent Guards Heavy Tank Regiment from 14.07.44 to 31.08.44, staszow.com
• Polish official population figures 2006