Praszka [ˈpraʂka] is a town in Olesno County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland, with 7,655 inhabitants (2019).

[2] It was granted town rights in 1392 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and new privileges in 1542 and 1620.

[2] As part of Russian reprisals after the uprising, Praszka was stripped of its town rights in 1870.

[2] It became again part of Poland after the county regained its independence in 1918, and town rights were restored in 1919.

[4] The Germans robbed, conscripted labor, forced into a ghetto, and then murdered almost all of the town's Jewish population.