Ciechanowiec is a small town in Wysoczyzna Drohiczyńska, Gmina Ciechanowiec

Gmina Ciechanowiec

Gmina Ciechanowiec is an urban-rural gmina in Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland...

, Wysokie Mazowieckie County

Wysokie Mazowieckie County

Wysokie Mazowieckie County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern 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 Wysokie...

, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusssian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and...

, Poland

Poland

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Alternate names used in the past or currently include Tshekhanovits Yiddish, Tsekhanovets Russian

Russian language

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, Chechanovitz, Chekhanovits, Chekhanovitse, Rudelstadt and Tsikhanovits.

Before the beginning of World War II

World War II

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, 55% of the town's inhabitants had been Jews

Jews

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. During the war they were almost all killed in Treblinka concentration camp.

Jewish family names like Ciechanowiec, Ciechanowiecki, Ciechanowicz, Ciechanowski are originating from this town.

People

• Alexander Chizhevsky
  Alexander Chizhevsky
  Alexander Chizhevsky was a Soviet-era interdisciplinary scientist, a biophysicist who founded “heliobiology” and “aero-ionization”...
  
  
• Jan Krzysztof Kluk
  Jan Krzysztof Kluk
  Jan Krzysztof Kluk was a Polish naturalist agronomist and entomologist.He was the son of Jan Krzysztof and Marianna Elżbieta. His father, a nobleman turned poor, was an architect, mainly of churches. Jan Krzysztof Kluk went to school in Warsaw, later in Drohiczyn, and finally in the Piarists...
  
  
• Benjamin Mazar
  Benjamin Mazar
  Benjamin Mazar was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's biblical links...
  
   (not native)

External links

• Ciechanowiec Online
• JewishGen Locality Page - Ciechanowiec, Poland from Museum of Jewish Heritage
  Museum of Jewish Heritage
  The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in lower Manhattan, is a living memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. The Museum honors those who died by celebrating their lives – cherishing the traditions that they embraced, examining their achievements and faith, and affirming the vibrant...
  
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