Strzegowo

{{see also|Strzegowo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Strzegowo | settlement_type = Village | total_type =   | image_skyline = STRZEGOWO 004 Urząd Gminy.jpg | image_caption = Gmina office in Strzegowo | image flag = | image_shield = | image_map = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{POL}} | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = Masovian | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Mława | subdivision_type3 = Gmina | subdivision_name3 = Strzegowo | established_title = First mentioned | established_date = 1349 | coordinates = {{coord|52|54|N|20|17|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}} | pushpin_map = Poland | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | elevation_m = | population_total = 8000 | registration_plate = WML | website = }} '''Strzegowo''' {{IPAc-pl|s|t|sz|e|'|g|o|w|o}} ({{langx|yi|סטשעגאווע|St'shegova}}) is a village on the Wkra river in Mława County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.{{TERYT}} It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Strzegowo. It was formerly known as ''Strzegowo-Osada'' ("Strzegowo settlement").

==History== thumb|left|Monument to the fallen and murdered during the German occupation in World War II The village was mentioned in medieval documents in 1349.<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author= |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI|year=1890|language=Polish|location=Warsaw|page=454}}</ref> Administratively it was located in the Płock Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. A Catholic parish was established in the village in 1532.<ref name=sgk/>

On August 21, 1920, it was a place of battle during the Polish–Soviet War.<ref name=ak>{{cite journal|last=Kowalski|first=Andrzej|year=1995|title=Miejsca pamięci związane z Bitwą Warszawską 1920 r.|journal=Niepodległość i Pamięć|language=Polish|publisher=Muzeum Niepodległości w Warszawie|issue=2/2 (3)|page=161|issn=1427-1443}}</ref> There is a military cemetery of the soldiers of the Polish 115th Greater Poland Uhlan Regiment, who died in the battle.<ref name=ak/>

After the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, it was occupied by Germany from 1939 to 1945. Before the war, 30% of the population of the village was Jewish. Almost all were murdered in the Holocaust. Some were slaughtered in the town itself by Germans and local ethnic Germans (the Volksdeutsche). Others were deported to Treblinka and Auschwitz where they were murdered. A few escaped and joined the partisans. A Polish doctor staffed the small Jewish hospital and helped quell the epidemic of typhus.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Megargee |first1=Geoffrey |title=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos |date=2012 |publisher=University of Indiana Press |location=Bloomington, Indiana |isbn=978-0-253-35599-7 |volume =II|pages= 28–29}}</ref> Nazi Germany also operated a transit camp for Poles expelled from the region at the local school.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2017|title=Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945|language=Polish|location=Warsaw|publisher=IPN|pages=423|isbn=978-83-8098-174-4}}</ref>

The Jewish settlement was memorialised in a 1951 yizkor (later translated fully into English in 2000).<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bisberg-Youkelson |editor1-first=Feigl |editor2-last=Youkelson |editor2-first=Rubin |title=The Life and Death of a Polish Shtetl |date=2000 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |translator-last1= Bluestein|translator-first1= Gene|isbn=0803261675}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/strzegowo/ Jewish Community in Strzegowo] on Virtual Shtetl

Category:Villages in Mława County