September 22, 1409: A parish is established in Zdziechowice , a village 2 km from present Zaklikow.
1565: Stanisław Zaklika , after obtaining royal assent, founds the town of Zaklików, on the lands previously belonging to the village Zdziechowice . The founding city charter is based on the Magdeburg Law. The city takes its name and coat of arms from its founder.
1840: Joseph Lewinstein, a Russian rabbi and author, was born at Lublin, Russian Poland. He was a member of a family of rabbis and Talmudists which includes the author of the "Lebushim" and of "Pene Yehoshua'."
1860: Joseph Lewinstein, at the age of twenty, became rabbi of Karol , in the government of Plotzk
1868: Joseph Lewinstein became rabbi of Zaklikow, in the government of Lublin, but moved in 1875 to become rabbi of Serotzk , government of Lomza.
1907-1908: Zaklikow still under Russian hands.
1914-1915: During World War I the front passes through Zaklikow three times.
Summer 1915: The Russians are finally expelled from Zaklikow by the advance of German and Austro-Hungarian armies.
November 1918: Zaklikow again becomes part of independent Poland.
September 13, 1939: The 14th army of the German Heeresgruppe Süd was advancing east and northwest. Enemy forsec in front of the Korps divided into two parts: Norther & Southern. The northern part was withdrawing across the San into the woods around Zaklikow and Bilgoraj, last time spotted on the road Janow – Frampol .
September 14, 1939: The Polish Armoured Train Nr. 51 ("I Marszalek"), while covering the retreat of Polish forces near Zaklikow village, the train managed to delay the advance of the German 4th Infantry Division units until the next day and prevented Polish 94th Inf. Rgt. from being cut off of Polish main forces.
Sometime in 1942: 20 partisans led by Gregori Korchinski , most of them Jews, fighting against the Nazis in Poland, moved to the Zaklikov area and set up a partisan base in the villate of Ludmilovka . They recruited an additional 15 local men. Among the Jews there were unified groups commanded by Yaacov Freitag and Reuven Pintel .
April, 1942: In order to create room for the new arrivals, Polish Jews residing in the Lublin district were gradually deported farther east. These evacuations were initiated by the Nazi SS and Police Chief of Lublin in collaboration with the "Sub-Department of Population and Welfare" of the Governor of the district of Lublin, and namely on the proposal of the local authorities. For example, a certain Lenk, a subordinate of the District Chief of Janów-Lubelsk, wrote to the SS and Police Chief of Lublin asking them to evacuate Jews in the different locations in Poland, among which Zaklikow was mentioned with 1500 jews to be evacuated.
August, 1942: The entire Jewish population of the town of Janow Lubelski, which included a few hundred Jews that had been deported from Vienna to that town in 1941, was forced to concentrate in the nearby town of Zaklikow. They were afterward deported to the death camp in Belzec. There was a small forced labor camp for Jews in the nearby village of Lysakow which functioned for some time.
October 8, 1942: Jews captured by Nazis in Austria were taken from Modliborzyce to Zaklikow Station and deported to an extermination camp of Aktion Reinhard while old people and invalids were murdered right then and there. Of the 999 Austrian Jews only 13 are known to have survived Modliborzyce.
October 1942: According to testimony of Nuchim Rozenel, from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, on this month, during the second "action" in Krasnik ghetto the Hassidic rabbi from Turobin was in the Krasnik ghetto together with his son and son's family, and they were all deported to Zaklikow which was the main assembling ghetto for the Jews from Krasnik county during the final liquidation of the ghettos. From there he was deported to Belzec, together with his family.
November 3: According to a book by Arad, pp. 383-389, The Gouvernment General deported 2000 jews to Belzec from the town of Zaklikow, County of Janow, District of Lublin. An additional 300 were deported during the month of November from Janow Lubelski via Zaklikow.
June 25, 1943: From the archives of the reports of the Argentinian diplomatic missions about the racist policies of Germany and the occupied European countries (1933-1945), on this date, Luis Luti, the Business Attache of Argentina in Germany sent a letter to the minister of Foreign relations and cult of Argentina, Segundo R. Storni , in which he points out that "the road in which the deported Jews and the Jewish inhabitants of Poland were pushed to their ruin and destruction by the Nazis". In this report, he mentions the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and refers to the Treblinka concentration camp. The letter, numbered as "Note #275", and written in Berlin, states that after the violent dissolution of the Warsaw ghetto, in which the SS troups also suffered losses, according to the "Pat" agency, the germans put great effort into "liquidating" the ghettos of the small cities in the provinces from which the Jews were deported. In this comunique the follwing cities are mentioned: Frasnik, Zaklikow, Lublin, Zavichost, Biala Podlaska, Jedresejow, Iukow, Sokolow and Rawa Ruska. The Polish News Agency in London makes a special mention of a concentration camp known as Treblinka, located to the side of the railway Warsaw-Bialystok. This camp is equiped with special rooms in which Jews are locked in to be suffocated to death.
1989: Based on a general population survey about the social stratification in Eastern Europe, Zaklikow had a population of 8,877. According to the coding of geographical units based on the Wykaz symboli terytorialnych wojewodztw, gmin i miast (Register of Territorial Codes for Voivodships, Counties and Cities)of the Warsaw Glowny Urzad Statystyczny (Central Statistical Office) of 1992, the code for Zaklikow is 83721 and it is considered a rural county.
2000: The Levi-Strauss foundation donated $2400 to the Dom Pomocy Spolecznej in Zaklikow, to renovate a 24-hour care center for mentally-disabled women.
Famous people
Joseph Lewinstein: Was rabbi of Zaklikow from 1868 to 1875.
Fr. Jerzy (George) Kusy: Born April 12, 1960 in Janow Lubelski, Poland. In 1975 after finishing grade school in Potok Wielki he attended High School in Zaklików, Poland. On October 8, 1999 Bishop Anthony Pilla appointed him associate pastor of The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus in Cleveland, Ohio.
Interesting customs
Around the 1930's and 1940's, when there was a wedding in the town or Rachov , it was the custom that when the groom was from Zaklikov, he was greeted on the Yanishov road.
Bits & pieces of information
There was a Zaklika of Miedzygorze who was Chancellor of Poland some time in the 1300's.
There was a Zaklika who built hospitals in Queen Jadwiga's time.
Local Government
Zaklikow Municipal Office, District stalowowolski, Region Podkarpacie, Village administrator: Ryszard Polanski, ul. Zachodnia 15, 37-470 Zaklikow, tel. 0-15 873-84-76, fax 0-15 873-83-24, Website: http://www.zaklikow.com.pl/
Current companies from Zaklikow
Cherrywood Industry Sp.z.o.o., located at 24 Lubelska St., Zaklikow, 37-470, Poland. Contact: Marek Klak. Phone: 48-15-8738414. Fax: 48-15-8738414. Produces Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified Products certified by sgs with Cert. #: SGS-COC-0496 dated 1/1/2001. More especifically they produce wood flloring, Lumber (Sawn Timber/Boards/Planks) and furniture parts and components.
HSW (Huta Stalowa Wola) rodzaj działalności(Polish). ul. Lubelska 41, 37-470 Zaklikow, Poland. Phone: +48 15 8738326 +48 15 8738822. Fax: +48 15 8738325. Manufacturer of Wheel Bolts, Nuts, Bolts, Screws. Exports to Germany, United States, Russian Federation and Western Europe
Original Title: Hayiti sham, English Title: I was there, Editor: Joshua Laks, Published: Bene Berak 1993, Pages: 289, Language: Hebrew, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, Call No: 0623544, Zalman Aranne Central Library, Beer Sheva, Israel, Call No: 1300530
