Przytyk ' is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Radom County

Radom County

Radom 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 is the city of Radom, although the city is not...

, Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship

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

, in east-central Poland, founded in the year 1333. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Przytyk

Gmina Przytyk

Gmina Przytyk is a rural gmina in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Przytyk, which lies approximately west of Radom and south of Warsaw....

. It lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Radom

Radom

Radom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...

 and 84 km (52 mi) south 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...

. In 2006 the village had a population of 990.

In 1895, the village was completely destroyed by a fire, leaving 4,000 inhabitants homeless. The one building not destroyed was a church.

Przytyk was the scene of an anti-semitic pogrom

Przytyk pogrom

The Przytyk Pogrom occurred against the Jewish community in Przytyk, Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland on March 9, 1936. It was the most notorious incident of antisemitic violence in Poland in the interwar period, and attracted worldwide attention...

on March 7-9, 1936 Prior to the Holocaust, over 80% of population of the village was Jewish. Most perished in the Holocaust and few returned after the war.