Annopol
Annopol is a town in south-eastern Poland, located in Kraśnik County in Lublin Voivodeship, in the historic region of Lesser Poland. Annopol has an area of, and as of June 2022 it has 2,335 inhabitants.
History
Annopol received town rights in 1761, lost them in 1870 and regained on 1 January 1996. Its coat of arms shows St. Anna, the patron saint of the town. It owes its picturesque location to the Lesser Polish Gorge of the Vistula.Jews began to settle in the town in the early 1600s. 73% of the town's population was Jewish by 1921.
Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in 1939, Annopol was occupied by Germany until 1944. During the Holocaust, a ghetto was created by the Germans. Jews from nearby villages and smaller towns, as well as from Kalisz and Łódź, were displaced to the Annopol ghetto. Jews from the ghetto were sent to the forced labor camps in nearby Rachów and Janiszów. The ghetto was liquidated on October 15, 1943 and most of the Jews were murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.
The history of Annopol is inextricably linked to that of Annopol-Rachów village close by, often combined as one and the same in written records.
From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship.