Strzegowo
Strzegowo is a village on the Wkra river in Mława County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Strzegowo. It was formerly known as Strzegowo-Osada. It lies approximately south of Mława and north-west of Warsaw.
The village has approximately 8,000 inhabitants. Before World War II, 30% of the population of the village was Jewish. Almost all were murdered in the Holocaust. Some were slaughtered in the town itself by Germans and local ethnic Germans. Others were deported to Treblinka and Auschwitz where they were murdered. A few escaped and joined the partisans. A Polish doctor staffed the small Jewish hospital and helped quell the epidemic of typhus.
