Annopol is a town in south-eastern Poland, located in Kraśnik County in Lublin Voivodeship, in the historic region of Lesser Poland. Annopol has an area of , 73% of the town's population was Jewish by 1921.

Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in 1939, Annopol was occupied by Germany until 1944. During the Holocaust, a ghetto was created by the Germans. Jews from nearby villages and smaller towns, as well as from Kalisz and Łódź, were displaced to the Annopol ghetto. Jews from the ghetto were sent to the forced labor camps in nearby Rachów and Janiszów. The ghetto was liquidated on October 15, 1943 and most of the Jews were murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.

From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship.

Transport

Annopol does not have a rail station, but the town is placed along national road 74, which goes from Piotrków Trybunalski to the Ukrainian border at the village of Zosin. Voivodeship roads 824 and 854 also pass through the town. The Vistula river road bridge at Annopol was built in 1967.

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File:Małopolski przełom wisly.jpg|Bridge over Vistula in Annopol

SM Annopol Kościół św Joachima i św Anny 2019 (2).jpg|St. Joachim and Anne Church

File:SM Annopol Kościół św Joachima i św Anny - wnętrze 2019 (1).jpg|Interior of St. Joachim and Anne Church

File:Kirkut w Annopolu 11.jpg|Holocaust memorial at the Jewish cemetery

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References

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  • Jewish community of Annopol on Virtual Shtetl