Międzyrzec Podlaski

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Not to be confused with Mezhirich or Mezhirichi.
Międzyrzec Podlaski
Lubelska Street
Lubelska Street
Flag of Międzyrzec Podlaski
Flag		 Coat of arms of Międzyrzec Podlaski
Coat of arms
Międzyrzec Podlaski (Poland)
Międzyrzec Podlaski
Międzyrzec Podlaski
Coordinates: 51°59′0″N 22°47′0″E / 51.98333, 22.78333
Country Flag of Poland Poland
Voivodeship Lublin
County Biała Podlaska
Gmina Międzyrzec Podlaski (urban gmina)
Established 12th century
Town rights 15th century
Government
 - Mayor Artur Jan Grzyb
Area
 - Total 20.03 km² (7.7 sq mi)
Elevation 148 m (486 ft)
Population (2006)
 - Total 17,162
 - Density 856.8/km² (2,219.1/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 21-560
Area code(s) +48 83
Car plates LBI
Website: http://www.miedzyrzec.pl
City center
City center

Międzyrzec Podlaski [mjɛnˈd​͡zɨʐɛt​͡s pɔdˈlaski] (Lat. Meserici, German: Meseritz) is a city in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.

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[edit] Jews in Międzyrzec Podlaski

The first official recognition of Międzyrzec Podlaski as a city occurred in the year 1477. Since the sixteenth century it has had a large Jewish population. In 1795, the city was occupied by Austria, belonging to the Duchy of Warsaw from 1809 until 1815, when it became a member of the Congress Poland. In 1867 the city became a stop on the Polish railway.

At the end of the 1930s approximately 12,000 people, or ¾ of the population, were Jewish. At the end of September 1939, the Red Army occupied the city, but at the beginning of October, the Soviet Union surrendered the city to Germany as part of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Following the surrender, approximately 2,000 of the city’s Jews left the city for the Soviet-occupied zone. The Germans erected a transfer ghetto in the city that was occupied by up to 20,000 prisoners. On the seventeenth of July 1943, that ghetto was liquidated, at which time the last 160-200 residents were shot, and the city was officially declared free of Jews. Fewer than 1% of the Jewish population of the city survived the German occupation.

See: Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto.

[edit] Economy

Of the approximately 4,900 employed citizens of the city, ca. 36% work in industrial fields, 19% in trade markets, and 11% in education. The unemployment rate in the city was 22% in October 2005.

[edit] People

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Coordinates: 51°59′N, 22°47′E


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