Radoszyce r 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 Końskie County

Konskie County

Końskie County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, 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 Końskie, which lies ...

, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship

Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, or Świętokrzyskie Province , is one of the 16 voivodeships into which Poland is presently divided. It is situated in central Poland, in the historical province of Lesser Poland, and takes its name from the Świętokrzyskie mountain range...

, in south-central Poland. 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 Radoszyce

Gmina Radoszyce

Gmina Radoszyce is a rural gmina in Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Radoszyce, which lies approximately south-west of Końskie and north-west of the regional capital Kielce.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total...

. It lies approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of Końskie

Konskie

Końskie is a town in central Poland with 20,328 inhabitants , situated in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship , previously in Kielce Voivodeship . Most of the town labour force was employed in the local foundry in the late 80s and early 90s...

 and 33 km (21 mi) north-west of the regional capital Kielce

Kielce

Kielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...

. The village has a population of 3,400.

Jewish History of Końskie

In 1900, there were 1728 Jews living in Radoszyce.
Konskie was both a town—50-66% Jewish—and a county (powiat

Powiat

A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture in other countries. The term powiat is most often translated into English as "county", although other terms are also sometimes used...

). Some of the main Jewish towns of the county were Konskie (called Kinsk by Jews), Gowarczow, Przedeborz, Opozno, Starachowice and others. Between the Germans, the Polish Blue Police (main police force) and the collaboration of non-Jewish Poles, almost all Jews from Konskie were murdered during World War II. Very few survived under German occupation, some survived in the USSR.

Famous people born in Radoszyce

• Yisochor Ber Baron, founder of the Radoshitz (Hasidic dynasty)
  Radoshitz (Hasidic dynasty)
  Radoshitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Yisochor Ber Baron .Radoshitz is the Yiddish name of Radoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a town in present-day Poland....