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[Secemin coat of arms]

Also used cemetery at Wloszczowa

Alternate names: Secemin [Pol], Setzemin, סאצאמין [Yid], Setzemin, Сецемин [Rus]. 50°46' N, 19°50' E, 36 miles W of Kielce. 1900 Jewish population: 171. Secemin is a village in Włoszczowa County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in south-central Poland and the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Secemin, 14 km (9 mi) SW of Włoszczowa and 57 km (35 mi) W of the regional capital Kielce with a population of 1,600. Gmina Secemin contains the villages and settlements of Bichniów, Brzozowa, Celiny, Czaryż, Dąbie, Daleszec, Gabrielów, Gródek, Kluczyce, Krzepice, Krzepin, Kuczków, Lipiny, Maleniec, Marchocice, Międzylesie, Miny, Nadolnik, Osiny, Papiernia, Pniaki, Psary, Psary-Kolonia, Ropocice, Secemin, Wałkonowy Dolne, Wałkonowy Górne, Wincentów, Wola Czaryska, Wola Kuczkowska, Wolica, Zakrzów, Żelisławice, Żelisławiczki and Zwlecza.  [June 2009]

US Commission No. POCE000163

The town is located in Czestochowa province at 50º46' 19º50', 12 km from Szczehociny, 12 km from Koniecpol, and 53 km from Czestochowa. Cemetery: S of town at a road. No Jews live there now.

  • Local: Urzad Gminy, tel. 77.
  • Regional: Wojewodzki Konserwator Zabtkow, Czestochowa, ul. Domegelskich 2, tel. 49745.
    1921 Jewish population was 244 (13.9%). The isolated rural (agricultural) flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open with permission. The unlandmarked Orthodox cemetery has a continuous fence and a locking gate. No stones or are known mass graves exist. The municipality owns the property used as a pig farm. Adjacent property is agricultural. There is no care.

Jan Pawel Woronczak, Sandomierska Str, 21 m.1, 02-567 Warszawa, tel. 49-54-62 completed survey on 17 Oct. 1991. Woroncak and Jeny Woronczak visited in 1988.