Kańczuga (Polish: [kaj̃ˈt͡ʂuɡa]) is a town in Przeworsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, with a population of 3,187 inhabitants on 2 June 2009.
The town, with its deep tunnels used as merchant goods storages, prospered until the late 15th century, when its population reached 3000.
As a result of the first of Partitions of Poland (Treaty of St-Petersburg dated 5 July 1772), Kańczuga was attributed to the Habsburg monarchy as part of Austrian Galicia, in which it remained until 1918.
[4] Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1944.
In April 1945, a pogrom took place in Kánczuga that targeted the few returning Holocaust survivors who gathered for a Passover Seder.