the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route. In 1766, most of Rawa burned in a fire, and on February 4, 1793, the town was seized by the Kingdom of Prussia during the Second Partition of Poland. In 1800, Rawa County was created, and in November 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars, Prussians left the town. It became part of the newly formed Duchy of Warsaw. Since 1815, following Napoleon's defeat, Rawa became part of the Russian-controlled Congress Poland. In 1822, a town hall was built together with tenement houses in the main town square, and in 1829-1830 a hospital was completed. Rawa quickly modernized, but this process was halted by the Tsarist repressions after the failed November Uprising of 1830. On February 4, 1863, Rawa was captured by Polish insurgents of the January Uprising. Another clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops took place on December 10, 1863. The town was almost completely destroyed in 1915 during World War I. After the war, in 1918, it was reintegrated with Poland, as the country regained independence. World War II During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Rawa was invaded by Germany, and already on September 10, German troops carried out a massacre of 40 inhabitants (17 Poles and 23 Jews) in the town. In mid-September 1939, the Germans established a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Polish soldiers in the town. Under German occupation, the town was administered as part of the Radom District of the General Government. Some of the Poles expelled from the Gostyń County in German-annexed Greater Poland in December 1939 were deported to Rawa. During the AB-Aktion, Germans arrested 20 Poles in mid-June 1940, among whom was parish priest Wacław Zienkowski, who joined the Polish resistance movement, helped Polish prisoners of war escape from the local German POW camp, and rescued local Jews. He was murdered in August 1940 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The Nazi Germans established a Jewish ghetto in Rawa Mazowiecka in March 1941. As Krzysztof Urbański informs in his monograph Zagłada Żydów w dystrykcie radomskim, the ghetto consisted of two parts: one area consisted of a district called Jewish, and the second part was located at Łowicka Street. The two zones spread across the eastern part of town from the bridge on Rawka river to the bridge on Rylka river near the hospital. At the same time