Wysokie Mazowieckie
Town Hall
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Wysokie Mazowieckie
Coordinates: 52°55′9″N 22°30′52″E / 52.91917°N 22.51444°E / 52.91917; 22.51444
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Wysokie Mazowieckie
Gmina	urban gmina
Government
• Mayor	Jarosław Siekierko
Area
• Total	15.24 km2 (5.88 sq mi)
Population  (2013[1])
• Total	9,503
• Density	620/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	18-200
Area code	+48 086
Car plates	BWM
Website	wysokiemazowieckie.pl

Wysokie Mazowieckie [vɨˈsɔkʲɛ mazɔˈvjɛt͡skʲɛ] is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the capital of Wysokie Mazowieckie County. Population is 10,034 as of 2005^[update].

In town there is one of the biggest dairy companies in this part of Europe - "Mlekovita". in 2018, the city was among the richest municipalities in Poland, has ranked 11th in the country

Jewish cemetery[edit]

The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie had been devastated in World War II. It was restored in 2006 and, protected by a fence, is maintained regularly by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. The Jewish cemetery contains a memorial to local Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. The memorial monument was vandalized in August 2012.^[2]

Sport[edit]

• Ruch Wysokie Mazowieckie - Polish football club

International relations[edit]

Twin towns – Sister cities[edit]

Wysokie Mazowieckie is twinned with:

• Alpiarça, Portugal
• Maišiagala, Lithuania
• Vysokaye, Belarus

Notable persons from Wysokie Mazowieckie[edit]

• Jerzy Barycki (born March 15, 1949, in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland), Polish-Canadian water resources engineer and civic activist
• Jacek Bogucki (born 13 February 1959 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 with 7,189 votes in 24 Białystok district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.
• Wojciech Borzuchowski (born 10 November 1961 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish politician, a member of Law and Justice party until 2007, when he joined the Polish People's Party. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2001 and served until 2005.
• Jacob Burck (January 7, 1907 – May 11, 1982), Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work.
• Przemysław Czajkowski (born 26 October 1988 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish athlete specializing in the discus throw. His personal best in the event is 65.61 meters, achieved in 2012 in Łódź.
• Jan Stanisław Jankowski (6 May 1882 – 13 March 1953; noms de guerre Doktor, Jan, Klonowski, Sobolewski, Soból), Polish politician, an important figure in the Polish civil resistance during World War II and a Government Delegate at Home. Arrested by the NKVD, he was sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen and murdered in a Soviet prison.
• Kazimierz Kamieński (nom de guerre "Gryf" and "Huzar"; born 8 January 1919 in Markowo-Wólka, died 11 October 1953 in a communist prison in Białystok), Polish Army officer, commander in the underground Polish Home Army (AK), ROAK and the anti-communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN). He was one of the longest fighting soldiers of the Polish anti-Communist resistance after World War II.
• Jan Kucharzewski (27 May 1876 in Wysokie Mazowieckie – 4 July 1952), Polish historian, lawyer, and politician. He was the prime minister of Poland from 1917 to 1918.
• Łukasz Załuska (born 16 June 1982), Polish professional football goalkeeper.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official town webpage (Polish)
• Wysokie Mazowieckie Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Yiddish, Hebrew & English)
• Wysokie-Mazowieckie Memorial Book
• We Remember Jewish Wysokie Mazowieckie