Wyszków is a town in northeastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2003). It is the capital of Wyszkow County (in Polish powiat wyszkowski). The Republic of Poland, a democratic country with a population of 38,626,349 and area of 312,685 km², is located in Central Europe, between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and... Wyszków county is one of county of Masovian Voivodship with capital in Wyszkow, area 876 km² and population 71,400 (2003). ...

Situated in the Masovian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Warsaw Voivodship (to 1975) and Ostroleka Voivodship (1975-1998). Masovian voivodship since 1999 The Masovian Voivodship (in Polish województwo mazowieckie) is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish administrative regions or voivodships created in 1999. ... Warszawa Voivodship (Polish: województwo warszawskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Masovian Voivodship. ...

The village of Wyszkowo was first documented in 1203. The town was founded in 1502. It was destroyed during the Polish-Sweden war in 1655-1660 when it lost its significance in the region. Industry developed from 1897 when the Pilawa-Tluszcz-Ostroleka railway was built. This article is about the history of Poland. ...

Before World War II half of Wyszkow's population of 9,000 were Jewish. 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. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... This article deals with the Nazi Holocaust. ... Gestapo is a portmanteau contraction of the name of the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, Geheime Staatspolizei, (German for secret state police). During the reign of Nazi Germany, the Gestapo was the central intelligence agency of Germany, under the overall administration of the SS. It was administrated by...

Wyszkow was the place of birth of Mordechaj Anielewicz in 1919. Mordechaj Anielewicz Mordechaj Anielewicz (1919,1920?-1943) was the commander of the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (English: Jewish Fighting Organization, also known as ŻOB) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ...