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Situated in the Masovian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Ostroleka Voivodship (1975-1998).
On 14 September 1997 a memorial to Holocaust victims was unveiled in Wyszkow. It is made of reclaimed Jewish gravestones that had been removed from the site in 1939 by German occupiers, who had used them as paving stones and in the construction of the local Gestapo headquarters. Scores of these desecrated tombstones were recovered and incorporated as part of the monument. Before World War II half of Wyszkow's population of 10,000 were Jewish.
Poland-related stubs