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Izbica (Yiddish: איזשביצא Izbitz, Izbitze) is a village in Poland, between Zamość and Krasnystaw, in the Lublin Voivodship. Yiddish (yi [[wiktייִדיש ייִדיש]] yidish or yi [[wiktאידיש אידיש]] idish, literally "Jewish" is a nonterritorial High Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Zamość is a town in southeastern Poland with 66633 inhabitants (2004 situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999 Krasnystaw is a town in eastern Poland with 19615 inhabitants (2004 Lublin Voivodeship (also known as Lublin Province or województwo lubelskie or simply Lubelskie) is a voivodeship, or Province, in eastern Poland Located at the Wieprz river, Izbica has roughly 2100 inhabitants. The Wieprz is a River in central-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula.

First mentioned in 1419, the town was granted Magdeburg Law rights in 1540. Magdeburg Rights (Magdeburger Recht or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with A notable centre of trade and commerce, with time the town became a shtetl, that is a town inhabitated primarily by Jews. A shtetl (שטעטל diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט "town" pronounced very similarly to the South German diminutive "Städtle" "little PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ In 1760 the city charter was reaffirmed. Year 1760 ( MDCCLX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap After the partitions of Poland in 1772 the town was annexed by Austria and then reclaimed by the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809. The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Year 1772 ( MDCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich The Duchy of Warsaw (Księstwo Warszawskie Duché de Varsovie Herzogtum Warschau Варшавское герцогство was a Polish state established by Napoleon Year 1809 ( MDCCCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte it became a part of the Kingdom of Poland. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. Congress Poland Kongresówka, officially and formally Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie {{IPA-pl|'|p|o|l|s|kʲ|e}} Царство Польское Tsarstvo Polskoye In 1827 it had 51 houses and 407 inhabitants, all of them Jewish. Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common In the 19th century the town was a notable centre of Hasidic Judaism, particularly thanks to tzadik Mordechaj Józef Leiner and his son Jakub Leiner, who established the Hasidic dynasty of Izhbitza. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, etc from the Hebrew: he '''''חסידות''''', Chassidus, meaning "piety" from the Hebrew For the Hebrew letter "Tzadik" see Tsade. Tzadik ( צדיק, "righteous one" pl Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica (איזשביצא איזביצא Izhbitse Izbitse) (1801-1854 was a Hasidic thinker and founder of the Izhbitzer dynasty Izhbitsa (or Ishbitza) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner, author of Mei Hashiloach After the January Uprising against Russia, in which many of the local inhabitants took part, the town was deprived of city rights and attached to the nearby commune of Tarnogóra. The January Uprising ( Polish: powstanie styczniowe, Lithuanian: 1863 m Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending

After Poland regained her independence the town grew significantly. In 1921 it had roughly 3000 inhabitants, by 1939 the number grew to roughly 6000. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The village grew particularly because of the Lublin-Zamość road and a railway to Zamość which opened in 1917. Lublin is the largest city in eastern Poland and the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 355954 During World War II Izbica was the site of a German concentration camp, serving as a transfer point during the deportation of Jews from Łódź to Bełżec and Sobibór. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including This article is a list of Nazi-German concentration camps.In the table below Extermination camps are marked with pink Łódź is Poland 's third largest city with population of 753192 in 2007 (lost its second rank to Krakow in 2007 Belzec (Bełżec approximate Polish pronunciation bew-zhets) was the first of the Nazi German Extermination camps created for implementing Sobibór is a Village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland Kurt Engels was commandant of the camp. Commandant (pronounced /'cɒmʊndɑnt/ or /'cɒmʊndænt/ COM-un-dahnt, -dant is a military or police title or rank In addition, approximately 4500 Jews were murdered at the local cemetery. The camp was closed after the last deportation on April 28, 1943 following a successful prisoner revolt. Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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