 By the end of World War I only 512 homes stood erect, and by 1921 there were only 2,825 Jewish residents, a mere 51%, living along the main road and around the town center.An account from the period depicts the town as being extremely unclean.At the end of 1939, after the invasion of Poland, a "Judenrat" and the Jewish Ghetto Police was established by the Nazi German occupiers.