Ryki

Ryki [ˈrɨki] is a town in eastern Poland on the main road between Warsaw and Lublin. It has 9,767 inhabitants (as of 2007). Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999). It is the capital of Ryki County. Ryki was first mentioned as a village owned by the king of Poland in documents from 1439. It received its city charter in 1782 but lost it in 1810. During the German occupation in years 1939-1944 the Jewish community of Ryki, constituting abou... more

Ryki [ˈrɨki] is a town in eastern Poland on the main road between Warsaw and Lublin. It has 9,767 inhabitants (as of 2007). Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999). It is the capital of Ryki County. Ryki was first mentioned as a village owned by the king of Poland in documents from 1439. It received its city charter in 1782 but lost it in 1810. During the German occupation in years 1939-1944 the Jewish community of Ryki, constituting about 70% of the town's population, perished in the Holocaust. Ryki again officially became a town in 1957. One of the major investments of the Edward Gierek era was in Ryki. It was in an Italian-built cake and sweets factory. It was the largest such factory in the world, and was to produce 17 million cakes a week. However, it soon turned out that most of the ingredients had to be imported from abroad at high prices, and the factory was closed soon after its completion. It remained one of biggest fallacies of the Gierek era. The surname of Hyman G... less