Grójec

Grójec is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodeship, about 40 km south of Warsaw. It is the capital of urban-rural gmina Grójec and Grójec County. It has 16,674 inhabitants (2017). Grójec surroundings are considered to be the biggest apple-growing area of Poland. It is said that the region makes up also for the biggest apple orchard of Europe. Statistically, every third apple sold in Poland is grown in Grójec – a unique local microclimate provides for their beautiful red colour.

World War II
In November 1940, during the Nazi Occupation of Poland, German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Grójec, in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation. The ghetto was liquidated in February 1941, when almost all of its inhabitants (5,200–6,000) were transported in cattle trucks to Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 sqmi. From there, most inmates were sent to Treblinka extermination camp. Only a group of Jewish craftsmen was left in Grójec, however, they were also annihilated in a mass execution in Dębówka, near Góra Kalwaria.

Notable people

 * Piotr Skarga - a Polish Jesuit
 * Jan Jagmin-Sadowski - general of the Polish Army
 * Marek Suski - a Polish politician
 * Justyna Kozdryk - a Polish powerlifter
 * Bartłomiej Niedziela - a Polish footballer

Twin towns – Sister cities
Grójec is twinned with:


 * 🇸🇰 Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
 * Strumica, North Macedonia
 * 🇮🇹 Canosa di Puglia, Italy
 * 🇧🇾 Horki, Belarus

Notes and references

 * Grójec city government webpage
 * Jewish Community in Grójec on Virtual Shtetl