# Szczekociny <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">שצ'קוצ'יני</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Szczekociny (Polish); Yiddish שטשעקאָטשין (Shtshekotshin)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Silesian Voivodeship, Zawiercie County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50°38′N 19°50′E</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1795</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1807</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>Kingdom of Prussia (New Silesia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1807–1815</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Kielce Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>German occupation (General Government)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Szczekociny</td><td>Poland — Silesian Voivodeship, Zawiercie County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Szczekociny (Yiddish Shtshekotshin) is a small town on the Pilica river in southern Poland. An organized Jewish community formed in the late 18th century, with a synagogue and cemetery; by the late 19th century well over 2,000 Jews lived there, roughly two-thirds of the population, and in 1937 the 3,018 Jews made up slightly more than half of all inhabitants. In 1942, under the German "Final Solution," about 1,500 of the town's Jews were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp; some 90% of the Jewish population perished and much of the town was destroyed. Today Szczekociny is a Polish town in the Silesian Voivodeship, its former Jewish community remembered through cemetery remnants and genealogical documentation. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczekociny ; Virtual Shtetl — https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/s/795-szczekociny ; International Jewish Cemetery Project — https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/szczekociny</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Froim Fiszel Chelmner (b.1821)]] | Born ~1821 | | [[Moszek Chelmner (b.1870)]] | Born 1870 | | [[Malka Liba Biderman (b.1823)]] | Died 09/28/1896 | | [[Szajndla Chelmner (b.1855)]] | Died 12/07/1899 | | [[Binyamin Zeev Wolf Zausmer (b.1610)]] | Died |