1. Dubeczno - Centrum miejscowości

History of Dubeczno - The history of the village probably dates back to the 16th century.Initially the owner of the grange was the Hański family.In 1531., as a result of marital colligations, the estate came into the possession of Nicholas Rej.In the 17th century. Dubechno belonged to the Kunicki family, from the 19th century. - Okęcki and the assimilated Jewish family of Yermulovich (Yarmolovich). In 1894. The indebted estate was purchased at auction by a Jewish entrepreneur - Rafal (Rafael) Herszkowicz Szuldberg, who also owned part of the Ruda (Ruda Huta) estate. After Rafal's death, his son Joseph (Josek) became the owner of the estate.In 1900. The lands of the Dubeczno manor were parceled out to German settlers. In 1921. Dubecin, which consisted of a village and a factory and trading settlement of the same name, was home to 672 Catholics, 400 Jews, 357 Evangelicals, 19 Baptists and ten Orthodox Christians. Small-scale industry and trade were developing.Jews in Dubechno - Until 1939. - Jews probably appeared in Dubeczno in the early 17th century.Around 1872. The Okęcki family (according to local accounts - the Yermulovichs) established a glassworks here.In the early 1920s.Jews made up a quarter of the population and played a large role in the economic development of the settlement. In 1929. In addition to the glassworks, brickworks and peat mining company owned by the heirs of Jozef Szuldberg, there were oil mills, a motor mill and windmills run by Jewish entrepreneurs. Jews traded in horses, owned two mud stores, numerous grocery stores and a beer hall.Jewish craftsmen ran workshops: tailoring, shoemaking, carpentry.Until 1939. They were subordinate to the Jewish community in Wlodawa.Holocaust - In 1941. The Germans resettled about 100 Jews from the Wartheland to Dubeczno.In June 1942. The Jews located in Dubeczno were resettled in Wlodawa, from where they were sent to the Sobibor death camp in November. In 1940-1943, in the nearby villages: Osowa, Krychów and Ujazdów, there were labor camps where Jews and Poles were held. Osowa has a cemetery and memorial to the Jews murdered there during World War II.