Zaklików

Zaklików (pronounced [zaˈklikuf]) is a town in Poland, located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in Stalowa Wola County.

Before the town existed, a Catholic parish was first established in Zdziechowice, a village 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) distance on September 22, 1409.

The town of Zaklików was founded on April 9, 1565, by the royal assent obtained by the Castellan Stanisław Zaklika Czyżowski from the King Sigismund II Augustus, on the lands previously belonging to the village of Zdziechowice.

Zaklików lost its town charter in punishment for the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising against Russian rule.

On September 13, 1939, the 14th army of the German Heeresgruppe Süd was advancing east and northwest in the course of Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland.

The northern part was withdrawing across the San River into the woods around Zaklikow and Biłgoraj, last time spotted on the Janów – Frampol road.

Officer Lenk, a subordinate of the District Chief of Janów-Lubelski, wrote to the SS-and-Police-Chief of Lublin asking for deportation of local Jews to a different locations in Poland.

[5] From the archives of the reports of the Argentinian diplomatic missions about the racist policies of Germany and the occupied European countries (1933–1945), on June 25, 1943, Luis Luti, the Commercial Attaché of Argentina in Germany sent a letter to Argentina's Minister of Foreign Relations and Culture, Segundo R. Storni, in which he points out that "the road in which the deported Jews and the Jewish inhabitants of Poland were pushed to their ruin and destruction by the Nazis".

The letter, numbered as "Note #275", and written in Berlin, states that after the violent dissolution of the Warsaw ghetto, in which the SS troops also suffered losses, according to the "Pat" agency, the Germans put great effort into "liquidating" the ghettos of the small cities in the provinces from which the Jews were deported.

In this publication, the following cities are mentioned: Kraśnik, Zaklików, Lublin, Zawichost, Biała Podlaska, Jedresejow, Łuków, Sokołów, and Rawa Ruska.

Most of the survivors had fled to the Soviet occupied territory at the beginning of the war or had escaped to the forest and fought as partisans.

In 2000, The Levi-Strauss Foundation donated US$2,400 to the Dom Pomocy Spolecznej in Zaklików, to renovate a 24-hour care center for mentally disabled women.

Portrait of Stanisław Zaklika Czyżowski, the town's founder on one of the buildings
Holy Trinity church ca 1908
Memorial to local victims of German deportation in World War II
Historic tombstone at the Jewish cemetery in Zaklików
Baroque Holy Trinity church