At the end of the 15th century , Frederick Jagiellon granted the town its official symbols : a golden crown on a red shield with the letters " CK " - '' Civitas Kielcensis '' ; Latin for the City of Kielce . Between 1637 and 1642 , due to the initiative of bishop Jakub Zadzik , a Renaissance palace was erected , which survived to the present day and remains an icon . The city was burned to the ground during the Swedish Deluge in the 17th century . After the Partitions of Poland , Kielce became part of the Austrian Empire . In 1809 , the city was incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw and after 1815 into the Congress Kingdom of Poland . During World War II , Kielce was the site of German Nazi atrocities and executions carried out on the Jewish population in the ghetto . After the war the city saw a massacre of the Jews that had survived the Nazi death camps . One of those murdered was a three-week-old baby . They had returned , hoping to rebuild their lives . which later became known as the Kielce pogrom
Kielce pogrom
Kielce pogrom
Kielce