Wysokie Mazowieckie

Wysokie Mazowieckie
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Wysokie Mazowieckie
Coordinates: 52°55′9″N 22°30′52″E / 52.91917°N 22.51444°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Wysokie Mazowieckie
Gmina	urban gmina
Government
• Mayor	Jarosław Siekierko
Area
• Total	15.24 km^2 (5.88 sq mi)
Population (2013[1])
• Total	9,503
• Density	620/km^2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	18-200
Area code(s)	+48 086
Car plates	BWM
Website	http://www.wysokiemazowieckie.pl

Wysokie Mazowieckie [vɨˈsɔkʲɛ mazɔˈvjɛt͡skʲɛ] is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the capital of Wysokie Mazowieckie County. Population is 10,034 as of 2005.

Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie had been devastated in World War II. It was restored in 2006 and, protected by a fence, is maintained regularly by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. The Jewish cemetery contains a memorial to local Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. The memorial monument was vandalized in August 2012.^[2]

Saint John the Baptist Church

Sport

• Ruch Wysokie Mazowieckie - Polish football club

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Wysokie Mazowieckie is twinned with:

• Alpiarça, Portugal

Notable persons from Wysokie Mazowieckie

• Jacek Bogucki
• Wojciech Borzuchowski
• Przemysław Czajkowski
• Jan Stanisław Jankowski
• Kazimierz Kamieński
• Jan Kucharzewski
• Łukasz Załuska

References

1. Demographic Yearbook of Poland 2014 Archived 20 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
2. "Jewish cemetery in Poland is vandalized". JTA. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

External links

• Official town webpage (Polish)
• Wysokie Mazowieckie Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Yiddish, Hebrew & English)
• Wysokie-Mazowieckie Memorial Book
• We Remember Jewish Wysokie Mazowieckie

Coordinates: 52°55′N 22°31′E / 52.917°N 22.517°E