Tyczyn is located in the lower Carpathian foothills, about halfway between the cities of Kraków to the west and Lviv (Lwów) to the east.

In 1368, King Casimir III of Poland granted Bartold Tyczner, a merchant from Moravia, a part of the former royal forest to establish a town.

[3] The Jewish residents faced severe restrictions, relocation from their homes to the Rzeszów ghetto, deportations to forced labour and concentration camps, as well as numerous executions.

According to Salton's autobiography, most of the ghetto's population, promised relocation to a large Ukrainian farm, were taken directly to Belzec where they were gassed in the designated gas chambers.

[4] Today, sites within the town serve as memorials and learning centers for the Tyczyn's victims of the Holocaust.