Błaszki ([ˈbwaʂkʲi]) is a town in Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 1,992 inhabitants as of December 2021.

[5] In 1926, town limits were greatly expanded by including the settlements of Janówka and Lubanów and a part of Borysławice as new neighbourhoods.

[7] The Jewish community was frequently targeted by anti-Semitic attacks.

[5] In September 1939, immediately after the German invasion of Poland, the Nazis arrested ten of the most important members of the community and executed them[5] On December 20, 1939,[5] the Błaszki Jews were transported to Łosice, Sarnaki and Sokołowo.

[7] In 1932 a local Zionist activist and writer Herman Solnik [pl], published Fun alṭn ḳloysṭer (From The Old Monastery, in Yiddish), a book of tales and legends about Błaszki and the then Kalisz County.