Grodzisk Mazowiecki AUD is a town in central Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 with 26,881 inhabitants in 2006. It is 30 km. southwest of Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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Between 1975 and 1998 it was situated in the Warszawa Voivodeship but since 1999 it has been situated in the Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship

-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...

. It is the capital of Grodzisk Mazowiecki County

Grodzisk Mazowiecki County

Grodzisk Mazowiecki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Grodzisk...

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XII c. - medieval village Grodzisk was created

XIV c. - it was owned by Polish noble family Grodziski

1522 - Grodzisk Mazowiecki has received Municipal Rights from king Zygmunt (Sigismund) I Old

Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I of Poland , of the Jagiellon dynasty, reigned as King of Poland and also as the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until 1548...

1655 - destroyed during Swedish Deluge then restored

1870 - its municipal rights were taken away

Between XIX and XX c. Grodzisk was known as recreation center with hydropatic establishment founded by Michał Bojasiński

1915 - Grodzisk recaptured its municipal rights

The town had a Jewish community and it had been the center of the Hasidic

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...

 Grodzhisk dynasty

Grodzhisk (Hasidic dynasty)

Grodzhisk is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Elimelech Szapira, author of Imrei Elimelech.Grodzhisk is the Yiddish name of Grodzisk Mazowiecki, a town in present-day Poland.- Lineage :...

, (Grodzisk Mazowiecki being pronounced as "Grodzhisk" in Yiddish

Yiddish language

Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...

.) Grodzisk was the birthplace of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943), also known as the Rebbe

Rebbe

Rebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...

 of the Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in the Polish capital between October and November 15, 1940, in the territory of General Government of the German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity...

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