Działoszyn is a town in
Pajęczno County,
Łódź Voivodeship
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Łódź Voivodeship is bordered by six other voivodeships: Masovian Voivodeship ...
, in south-central
Poland
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, with 5,627 inhabitants as of December 2021.
History
Działoszyn was granted town rights in 1421. It was a
private town
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, administratively located in the Wieluń County in the
Sieradz Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.
During the German
invasion of Poland
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at the beginning of
World War II
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, Działoszyn was the site of heavy fights between the Poles and the Germans. The town was heavily bombed by the Germans, and most of its Jews fled to nearby Paincheno, where they were employed in
forced labor
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. Eventually, the town's Jews were murdered by the occupiers in
the Holocaust
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.
The story of the Jewish community Działoszyn
/ref> The German occupiers, renamed the town to ''Dilltal''. In 1945, the German occupation ended, and the town's historic name was restored.
Sports
The local football
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club is Warta Działoszyn. It competes in the lower leagues. It was the first club of retired Poland national football team
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player Robert Warzycha.
Gallery
File:Działoszyn pałac Męcińskich powiatowy ośrodek kultury 02.05.2011 p2.jpg, Męciński Palace
File:Działoszyn kościół śś. Marii i Magdaleny 02.05.2011. p2.jpg, Baroque
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Saint Mary Magdalene church
File:Dzialoszyn61.jpg, Kayak station
File:Działoszyn, cmentarz komunalny, mogiły poległych w wojnie obronnej w 1939 r..jpg, Cemetery of Polish soldiers killed during the German invasion in 1939
References
External links
Official site of Działoszyn
Cities and towns in Łódź Voivodeship
Pajęczno County
Populated places on the Warta
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