Przysucha was bombed on September 6, 1939, when 70 houses were destroyed. Germans opened a ghetto with more than 5,000 Jews and murdered most of them at the Treblinka extermination camp. Underground resistance was strong in Przysucha and the county. On September 6, 1944, German forces lost 140 soldiers, and 230 were wounded in a battle near the village of Stefanów. Soviet troops entered the town on January 17, 1945. Since World War II Immediately after the war, Przysucha had 1,500 inhabitants. In 1956 it became the seat of a county, and two years later it regained its town rights. During Communist times, several enterprises were opened there - clay mine, ceramics factory, fruit and vegetable processor. Among points of interest are: classicist parish church (1780-1786), 19th century houses, Dembiński Manor House - currently a museum, Jewish cemetery, monument of Polish soldiers in a town square. References External links Przysucha local government webpage Przysucha on the map, via www.pilot.pl Jewish Community in Przysucha on Virtual Shtetl Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Przysucha County Radom Governorate Łódź Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Poland