1. Trawniki - Centrum miejscowości

The history of the village of Trawniki probably dates back to the first half of the 14th century.In subsequent years, the village frequently changed owners, which was not conducive to its development. Only in the late 19th century., with the construction of the Vistula railroad and the road connecting Faislawice to Wlodawa, Trawniki began to develop economically and demographically. A mill, a sugar factory, a brewery, a butcher store, numerous stores and craft workshops were established.Many Jews and a small group of German specialists settled here at the time, employed in the construction and supervision of the sugar factory. After the collapse of the sugar factory in 1933. Textile factories were established in its buildings. September 4 and 8, 1939. Lawns was bombed by the German air force, ten people died then and many buildings were destroyed. In September 1939. On the site of the sugar factory, the Germans set up a camp for Polish prisoners of war. From the fall of 1941. It was a camp for Soviet prisoners of war and suspected communists. In the spring of 1942. A transit camp was established there for Poles arrested in the Lublin region during actions against partisans.Jews in Trawniki - Until 1918. - It was not until the end of the 19th century that Jews began to settle in Trawniki on a wider scale., but probably as early as 1787. Several dozen Jews lived here.Interwar period - In the 1920s and 1930s, most Jews lived in the vicinity of today's train station, and there was a synagogue or, more likely, a beit ha-midrash. They made their living from petty trade and crafts.A few wealthy entrepreneurs ran warehouses for wood and other goods. Most of the stores owned by Jews were located in the vicinity of the train station, the sugar factory and where the commercial pavilions now stand. There was an illegal cell of the Polish Communist Party, whose members included. Jewish Communists. There was no Jewish cemetery - the dead were buried in the Biskupice cemetery.In 2013, a mural was unveiled to evoke the memory of a Jewish labor camp operating in Trawniki during the German occupation.