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Piotrkow Trybunalski is located approximately 42 kilometers or 26 miles south-southeast of Lodz in the Piotrkow Province in central Poland.Piotrkow is a big textile center, which also manufactures wood and glass products. It is one of Poland’s oldest cities, which was first mentioned in 1217 and became the seat of several Polish tribunals.The city passed to Russian control in 1815 and was the capital of Piotrkow province from 1867 to 1915. It reverted back to Poland in 1919. The estimated total population in 1991 was 81,300.Piotrkow Trybunalski has several old churches and the ruins of a castle built by Casimir the Great.
Piotrkow Trybunalski was an important Jewish cultural, religious and Hebrew publishing center, with three weekly Yiddish newspapers and many Jewish organizations and institutions.During World War II, the Piotrkow Jews were mainly deported to the death camp at Treblinka.After World War II, some of the survivors returned to Piotrkow Trybunalski to look for their relatives, however, the Jewish community was not reestablished.Nearby Jewish communities existed in Belchatow, Kamiensk, Lask, Opoczno, Pabianice, Przedborz, Przyglow, Radomsko, Rozprza, Serock, Sulejow, Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Tuszyn, and Wolborz.
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