Działoszyce [d͡ʑawɔˈʂɨt͡sɛ] ⓘ is a town in Pińczów County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in southern Poland, with 2,882 inhabitants as of December 2023.

[2] The vast majority of the Jewish population was exterminated in the Holocaust by German Nazis during their occupation of Poland.

Działoszyce, located on the Nidzica river (a tributary to the Vistula), was in the Middle Ages placed along a merchant route from Kraków to Wiślica.

The settlement prospered due to the protection of bishop of Kraków Iwo Odrowąż, and King Kazimierz Wielki.

The town was part of Lesser Poland’s Sandomierz Voivodeship, and it belonged to the Ostrogski family, which collected tolls for crossing the river bridge.

About 7000 Jews lived in the town at the beginning of the war, a number that increased significantly as refugees fled from other places or were deported, to Działoszyce.

In 1941, both typhoid and typhus epidemics spread throughout the community but a valiant Jewish doctor established processes of sanitation and disinfection.