Pilica is a historic town of 1,900 people (2019) in southern Poland, north of Kraków in the Polish Jura mountains. The place is best known for its medieval old town. There is a beautiful castle ruin there.
Pilica gained rights as a town in 1393.
In 1905 Pilica Became a famous centre of Hasidism. After a famous tzaddik from Góra Kalwaria died – Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter – a considerable number of Hasidim started to go on pilgrimages to the rabbi’s brother-in-law, Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Justman author of Siftei Tzadik.
By 1921, the majority of the town's residents were Jewish. The town was occupied by the German army in September 1939. 2,000 Jews were kept imprisoned in a ghetto. In 1942, all the Jews were transferred first to the Wolbrom ghetto, and then to the concentration camps. Today, no Jews live in Pilica.
It is on the road between Częstochowa and Krakow ,about halfway between them.
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