Żuromin [ʐuˈrɔmin] is a town in north-central Poland, in Masovian Voivodeship, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) northwest of Warsaw.

During the January Uprising, on February 8, 1863, a battle between Polish insurgents and Russian troops was fought near Żuromin.

[2] In 1918 it became again part of independent Poland, as the country regained sovereignty after World War I.

In late 1939, local Polish priest Stanisław Malinowski was deported to the Soldau concentration camp and then murdered there.

[4] Local Polish teachers and a school principal were among Polish teachers and principals murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp,[5] and local disabled people were murdered by the Germans in a massacre carried out in February 1940 in the nearby village of Ościsłowo.