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- Knyszyn was a royal town of Poland, administratively located in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown.
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Knyszyn [ˈknɨʂɨn] (Belarusian: Кнышин, Yiddish: קנישין, romanized: Knishin, Lithuanian: Knišinas) is a town in north-eastern Poland, 26 kilometres (16 miles) northwest of Białystok. It is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (since 1999), and was formerly in the Białystok Voivodeship (1975-1998) .
Knyszyn is a town with more than 500 years of history. Once the residence of Polish kings (in the 16th and 17th centuries), it was here in 1572 that the last king of the Jagiellonian dynasty, Sigmundus Augustus, met his end. His memorial tomb was opened in 1997.
Jul 26, 2007 · Jay Lurie poses next to a map of Knyszyn, the small town in Podlasie, Poland where his maternal grandmother was born.
Mar 8, 2018 · Somewhere between Warsaw and Knyszyn, Poland. My great-great-grandparents were Polish Jews from Knyszyn, a small town in the northeast corner of Poland. With their families’ blessings, they married in their late teens and left Poland to emigrate to the United States in 1887.
In 1679, Jews in Knyszyn constituted only 0.9% of the town's population--barely a few families (B. Tomecka, Knyszyn--Historic Urban Study, Bialystok, BBIDZ, 1983). However, it has been concluded that the "Privilege" edict had little impact and that ways to evade the restrictions were found, as proved by the fact that Jews were living in groups ...
Gmina Knyszyn is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Knyszyn, which lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-east of Mońki and 28 km (17 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok .
Only Knyszyn Polish Collective tried to fight with Jewish trade. Its Leader was a priest - Tadeusz Szadbey. On Purim a band of Jewish in Knyszyn. In August 1915 year during escaping of Russian army soldiers destroyed Jewish factories and 50% of buildings in town: the town hall and the synagogue on Tykocka Street.
