Frampol
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Frampol [] is a town in Poland, in Lublin Voivodeship, in Biłgoraj County. It has 1,440 inhabitants (2004).
The town was founded in 1705, with a unique, highly symmetric Grafika:Plan_frampola.jpg of streets in the shape of concentric rectangles around a large central square. In 1869 it lost its official status as a town, to recover it only in 1993. During World War II 90% of the town's buildings were destroyed in a raid carried out by the Luftwaffe on September 13, 1939. During the German occupation the town's significant Jewish community perished in the Holocaust. The town never fully recovered - its population today is less than half of what it was before the war.
External links
- Official town webpage
- Description of Frampol in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland
- Description of the Jewish Cemetery in Frampol
See also
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