Pajęczno


Pajęczno is a town in Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about north of Częstochowa. It is the capital of Pajęczno County. Population is 6,829.
First mentioned in historical sources from 1140. It had city rights between 1276 and 1870, and again from 1958.
A Jewish community had been residents of Pajęczno since the late 1700s and numbered about 700 at the beginning of World War II. When the Germans occupied the town in September 1939, they unleashed a violent attack against the Jewish community, beginning with murder and abuse, then stripping Jews of most of their property, and in 1941, confining them to an overcrowded ghetto. After that, Jews were expelled to labor camps and then in August 1942, many were murdered in the city and most of the rest were sent to the Chelmno extermination site where they were immediately gassed. The last few dozen were sent to the Lodz ghetto. Very few Pajęczno Jews survived the war.
On 14 June 2019 a drunk man drove through the town in a T-55 tank and was arrested shortly after.
The current mayor is Dariusz Tokarski.