Szadek [ˈʂadɛk] is a town in Zduńska Wola County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,898 inhabitants (2020).[1]

Szadek
Gothic church of the Assumption in Szadek
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 51°41′30″N 18°58′45″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Łódź
County	Zduńska Wola
Gmina	Szadek
First mentioned	1295
Government
• Mayor	Artur Ławniczak
Area
• Total	17.99 km2 (6.95 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2020)
• Total	1,898 [1]
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	98-240
Car plates	EZD
Website	http://www.szadek.net

History

The oldest known mention of the town comes from 1295, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. It was a royal town of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

In 1921, there were 535 Jews out of the total 3,058 residents in Szadek. At that time, the Jewish population was concentrated mostly along Sieradzka Street, where they constituted almost 90% of inhabitants.[2]

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded by Germany. During the German occupation, Jews were robbed and subject to forced labour without pay, some working in the community, others sent to labor camps, and Poles were subjected to expulsions and deportations to forced labour. In 1940, the Germans expelled 102 Poles, who were then detained in a transit camp in Łódź and either deported to forced labour in Germany or deported in freight trains to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while their homes were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3] Also in 1940, five Poles from Szadek were murdered by the Soviets in the large Katyn massacre.[4] In 1940, the 410 Jews remaining in the town were given three hours notice that they were to move to a ghetto where they lived in poverty and with terrible hygienic conditions. On 14 August 1942, all of Szadek's Jewish community were deported to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were immediately gassed.[5][6][7] There were fewer than twenty survivors from the Szadek Jewish committee. One Polish woman hid a Jewish woman, saving her life, and after the war was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. German occupation ended in 1945 and the town was restored to Poland.

References

External links

• Official town website

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[de] Szadek

[ru] Шадек (Польша)