Sokołów Małopolski

Sokołów Małopolski [sɔˈkɔwuf mawɔˈpɔlskʲi] is a town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 3,962 (2 June 2009).

In 1608, the town was looted by Stanislaw Stadnicki, a well-known troublemaker and the so-called “Devil of Łańcut”, but after this incident, Sokolow continued to prosper.

Following the First Partition of Poland, Sokołów was in 1772 annexed by the Habsburg Empire, and remained in Austrian Galicia until late 1918.

In the Second Polish Republic, Sokolow belonged to Lwow Voivodeship, and even though it was located in the Central Industrial Region, no plant was opened here, and the promised rail line was not built.

In April 1942, the Jewish population, then numbering 3,000 because of refugees and others resettled by the Germans in Sokołów Małopolski, was forced into a ghetto.

Saint John church
Market square, ca 1905-1918