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where they were gassed on arrival. At the end of 1942, the town was officially declared "free of Jews". Fewer than twenty of
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tried to improve the situation, by allowing in 1677 Armenian, Greek and Jewish merchants to settle there. Meanwhile, the profitable
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Kazimierz Dolny is an art center in Poland. Many painters retreat to this small town to paint and sell their work. Galleries can be found in almost every street, offering for sale sculptures,
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Between the First and Second World Wars, the Jewish population was about 1,400, half the total population of the town. The town's picturesque surroundings were chosen to film scenes for the
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Germans invaded Kazimierz Dolny in September 1939. The population at that time included about 1800 Jews, slightly less than 40 percent of the population. During the occupation, a
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Home page of the painter Chaim
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St Anne's Church (1671) and Holy Spirit hospital (1635),
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