The town is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999 , previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship . Czeladź is one of the cities of the 2,7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people . The population of the town is 34,072 ( 2008 ) . Founded in the 13th century , Czeladź was granted city status in 1262 . In the years 1434 – 1790 , it belonged to the Duchy of Siewierz . In the 19th century , Czeladź became an important mining center , with the '' Saturn '' coal mine opened there in the late 19th century . It also was a main center of Jewish culture , destroyed in The Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Czeladź