Tłuszcz
Tłuszcz is a town in Wołomin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland, with 8,039 inhabitants.
History
Tłuszcz was founded in the 15th century. It was a royal village of Poland, administratively located in the Nur Land in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.During the Polish–Soviet War, in the night of 12–13 August 1920, Tłuszcz was the scene of a skirmish between the Poles and the invading Russians, part of the Battle of Warsaw (1920).
During World War II Tłuszcz was occupied by Germany from 1939 to 1944. The occupiers removed pockets of Jews from the town, shot and killed many of the same, and segregated various Jewish populations away from Tłuszcz town limits.