Maków Mazowiecki [ˈmakuf mazɔˈvʲɛt͡skʲi] (Yiddish: מאקאוו, romanized: Makov) is a town in Poland, in the Masovian Voivodship.

During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the Einsatzgruppe V entered the town on September 10–11, 1939, commit atrocities against the population.

[4] Medicines from pharmacies and local supplies of grain, sugar and rice were confiscated for the German Army.

Some killings were done in the town; thousands of Maków Mazowiecki Jews were murdered at the Auschwi[6]tz concentration camp.

[7] While a secret protocol had been struck prior to World War II between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that laid plans to split up Poland between them, Germany later abrogated this agreement and struck deeply into Russian territory.