Zelów [ˈzɛluf] (Czech: Zelov; German: 1943–45 Sellau) is a town in Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 7,459 inhabitants (2020).

The official act of purchase dated- 21 December 1802, says, that Józef Świdziński sold the village with all its surrounding grounds, forests, buildings, etc.

Since agriculture wasn't profitable enough Zelów residents had to engage in additional activities like weaving, hackwork, production of tablecloths, and other jobs.

[6] When the Germans invaded Poland at the start of World War II in September 1939, they began to rob and terrorize the Jewish population.

Similarly, the German wholesale company Karl Lieb provided food vouchers to the local Jewish population.

The Germans imprisoned several Polish women from Zelów in a female prison in Łódź for helping Jews and their fate remains unknown.

In what must be a unique occurrence, two Jewish boys played on the Hitler Youth football team, a fact that brought an angry protest from one of their opponents.

[9] The German occupation ended in 1945, and the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.