a hospital for wounded Polish troops was organized in Góra Kalwaria. To commemorate the Polish victory, Marshal Józef Piłsudski awarded 133 Polish artillerymen with the Virtuti Militari in a ceremony held in the town in August 1921. In the interbellum, the Polish Border Guard Main School was located in the town until 1933, and then the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment was stationed there. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany. 23 Polish policemen from the town and officers from the local garrison were murdered by the Russians in the large Katyn massacre in April–May 1940. During the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the town was first concentrated in a small ghetto. In 1942, it was transferred to the Warsaw Ghetto and from there to the Treblinka extermination camp. In 1945, the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which then stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. After the Fall of Communism, pre-war monuments dedicated to Marshal Józef Piłsudski and the Polish heroes of the Polish–Soviet War were restored. Transport The Polish National roads No. 50 and 79 and the Polish railway line No. 12 (Skierniewice—Łuków) bypass the town. There is an inland port on the Vistula river in Góra Kalwaria. Sports The main sports club of the town is Korona Góra Kalwaria with football, boxing and chess sections. People Rebbes of Ger (Alter family) Yitzchak Meir Alter Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter Avraham Mordechai Alter Yisrael Alter Simchah Bunim Alter Pinchas Menachem Alter Pinchas Menachem Justman, The Piltzer Rebbe Dov Berish Einhorn, The Amstover Rav Józef Chaciński, politician and lawyer Yitzhak-Meir Levin, member of the Sejm and signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence Wolf Messing, a mentalist Yankel Talmud (1885-1965), Ger court composer See also Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Battle of Warsaw (1920) Battle of Radzymin (1944) References External links Miasto i gmina Góra Kalwaria Jewish Community in Góra Kalwaria on Virtual Shtetl Piaseczno County Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Masovia Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795) Warsaw Governorate Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Poland Historic Jewish communities in Poland