by Germany until 1945. The occupiers carried out deportations of Jews to forced labour, and eventually the local Jewish community was destroyed by the Germans in the Holocaust. Polish villagers and military took advantage of the chaos to loot the property of the Jews of Szydłowiec. There are known cases of local Poles who were arrested and sent to concentration camps by the Germans for producing and giving false identity cards to Jews to save them from the Holocaust. Also Jews escaping from Kozienice were directed to Szydłowiec in order to get help from local Poles. At one point it had a population that was of a Jewish majority. It was home to Grand Rabbi Natan David Rabinowitz (d. 1865), the grandson of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz of Peshischa, and the father of the Biala Hasidic dynasty. It was administratively located in the Radom Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. Sports The local football team is . It competes in the lower leagues. Gallery References External links "Here Their Stories Will Be Told..." The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem, Szydłowiec, at Yad Vashem website. Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Szydłowiec County Sandomierz Voivodeship Radom Governorate Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939)