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Tens of Jewish communities thrived and prospered throughout the Zagłęmbie region of south west Poland over the course of 700 years. The Jews of Zagłębie, who numbered 100,000 before the War, were destroyed by Nazi
Germany. The Jews of Zagłęmbie resisted their Nazi enemies with honor and
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in 1848, the region became the most industrialised part of the
Kingdom. Despite developing simultaneously with adjacent Silesia, the region remained outside of German influence and remained largely Polish, a fact that is still a source of a certain animosity between the
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Residents of the region spoke their own dialect, which now is largely extinct. It belonged to Lesser Poland group of dialects, with some
Silesian and Russian additions (because Zagłębie in 1815–1915 was part of the
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was quickly growing, emerging as a main center of the region. The adjective "dabrowskie" comes from the name of the town. The capital of the region has never been officially established.
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Józef
Cieszkowski związał swoje losy z Dąbrową Górniczą. Był naczelnym zawiadowcą kopalń Okręgu Zachodniego, a od 1834 r. ich naczelnikiem. Wynalazł nowe metody wydobycia.
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The name Zagłębie Dąbrowskie was first used in ca. 1850, by Jozef
Cieszkowski, a clerk employed at Western Coal District in Dąbrowa Górnicza. At that time, the town of
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At the start of World War II, 100,000 Jews lived in the area of Zagłębie. On August 12, 1942 all the Jews of the region were gathered together and after a
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Since the borders of the region were never clearly defined, other towns are also sometimes listed among the cities of Zagłębie. These are:
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for immediate extermination. The rest of the Jews were sent to slave labor camps throughout the Nazi empire. A forest was planted in
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process, 12,500 of them were deemed unfit for work and were sent to
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