Wonsz ( Polish. Wąsosz ) is a village in Poland , part of the Grajewski county of Podlaskie Voivodeship . The administrative center of the district is Wonsos . It is located on the Wissa River ( Biebrzi tributary) about 16 km south-west of the town of Grajewo . According to 2015 estimates, approximately 1,236 people lived in the village [1] . There is a late Gothic church (1508–1532).
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History
Wonsosh had city status from 1436 to 1870 [2] . At the end of the 19th century, it was a place in the Schuchinsky district of the Lomzhino province . There were 2592 inhabitants, there was a distillery [3] . In 1941, a Jewish pogrom took place in Vonsoš, during which several hundred people were killed [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Demografia Polski 2015 // demografia.lo.pl
- ↑ Wąsosz - Zamierzchłe czasy. Internet Archive (Polish)
- ↑ Wonsosch // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ The exhumation of the remains of victims of the pogrom in Vonsoš is prohibited by the Chief Rabbi of Poland