Tarczyn

members murdered by the Germans in 1944 Tarczyn was founded as a market settlement in the 13th century. It was located at the intersection of the north-south Zakroczym-Warsaw-Radom and east-west Lublin-Łowicz-Poznań trade routes. Mieczysław Kaczyński, who distributed underground Polish press, and apothecary Ewa Jeżewska, who fed hungry people, treated wounded Polish soldiers and insurgents, and hid them from the Germans. Stępkowski, Oszkiel and Kaczyński were captured and murdered by the Germans in 1943–1944. In 1945 the German occupation ended and the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. Ewa Jeżewska, who survived the war, was harassed by the communists and deprived of her pharmacy. ==Attractions==

Tarczyn and its district have a few characteristic places like the forests and brushwoods, the picturesque tracts of woodlands, through which the river Jeziorka wends. Many tourist attractions: Tarczyn's 16th-century church; the wooden church in Rembertów; the rustic, little chapels in Leśna Polana, in Przypki and in Werdun; studs of horses; Organic Farm in Kawęczyn; tourist farm in Przypki; past verdant, thick forests to the western part of the district; the Manor House at Many, where Złotopolscy daytime soap opera was filmed (with English subtitles, viewable on satellite TV). ==Transport==

Tarczyn is located west of the S7 highway, part of the international European route E77, connecting Kraków, Kielce and Radom in the south with Warsaw and Gdańsk in the north. The nearest major airport is the Warsaw Chopin Airport. Public transit is serviced by PKS Grójec which provides transit service to Warsaw West Station. ==Notable people==

• Adam Franciszek Ksawery Rostkowski (1660–1738), Polish Catholic bishop, writer and translator; died in Tarczyn • Irena Sendler (1910–2008), Polish war hero, humanitarian and nurse of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, head of the children's section of the Żegota, who rescued 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust, grew up in Tarczyn; honorary citizen of Tarczyn • Jan Wróblewski, Polish brewer, founder of the Harbin Brewery, the oldest brewery in China ==References==