Page "Biłgoraj" Paragraph 7

During the German occupation, Biłgoraj was an important center of the resistance.

Local units of the Home Army and other clandestine organizations took part in the Zamosc Uprising.

Germans knew well that Solska Wilderness was filled with Polish fighters, and the Poles frequently attacked German units in Bilgoraj.

The most famous incident of this kind took place on September 24, 1943, when a Home Army unit under Tadeusz Sztumberk-Rychter attacked Biłgoraj's prison, releasing 72 inmates, including Ludwik Ehrlich.

Historically, the town was a center of a large Jewish community, whose population in 1931 reached 4, 596.

Most of Biłgoraj's Jews perished in the Holocaust.

The Germans left Biłgoraj on July 24, 1944.

During the war, 80 % of the town was destroyed, and it lost 50 % of its population.

After 1945 Biłgoraj was rebuilt, becoming by 1975 the most important industrial center of Zamosc Voivodeship.