Wadowice. See Google Map. A town (2024 pop 16,929) and county center in Bielsko-Biała voivodeship, Poland. In 1919–20 it was the site of a concentration camp in which the Polish regime kept Ukrainians from Galicia. Almost 1,500 of the 15,000 prisoners died of typhus. Later an internment camp was organized there for the soldiers of the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic. As in other internment camps, the Ukrainian internees organized a cultural and educational programs that included literacy and Ukrainian studies courses, choirs, a theater, a library, and a credit union.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]