After heavy fights between German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies in November-December 1914, a dozen or so war cemeteries were created in the vicinity of Szadek. One of such places is the war cemetery in Szadkowice, ...

Juliusz Daniel Jedliński, born in Szadek, during his studies at Warsaw University took part as ficer in the November Uprising (1830-1831), for which he was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. After the defeat oh the ...

At the end of the 1920s, Alfons Parczewski, nearly eighty at that time, published his recollections of the January Uprising in 1863. He describes the events that took place in his family’s estate in Wodzierady and in the ...

This paper presents the results of geographical and historical research concerning the development of the village of Wilamów in Szadek municipality. The village belonged to the royal estates, but for most of the surveyed ...

 The District (Gromadzka) People’s Council in Górna Wola was formed as a result of the administrative reform in 1954. It comprised the villages of Wilamów, Tarnówka and Rzepiszew, now being part of Szadek municipality. ...

This article higlights the history of several members of the Dziamarski family – for centuries connected with Szadek and engaged in various forms of fight for Poland’s independence. The awarded orders of merit served as a ...

This article presents biographical sketches of two soldiers of the Polish Legions – Ignacy Kobacki and Herakliusz Konstanty Iglikowski, who fought for Poland’s independence in 1915-1917 and in the Polish Army in 1918-1922. ...