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Tomaszów Lubelski is a town in south-eastern Poland with 20,261 inhabitants.
Tomaszow Lubelski is about 25km far from Zamosc. The historical city centre of Zamosc was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The town was founded at the beginning of the 17th century by Jan Zamoyski, and is known by its current name since 1613. It obtained its city charter in 1621. The area around the city saw serious fighting in 1914 during World War I. Throughout its history the town had a significant Jewish community, which numbered over 5,000 in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II, making up half its population. The town found itself under the German occupation following the invasion of Poland in 1939. In the course of the Holocaust, the Nazi Germans first placed the Jews in a ghetto established in the town, then exterminated them in 1942 at Belzec death camp located a few kilometers south of the town.

Tomaszow Lubelski is one of main town of the Roztocze.
Roztocze is a range of hills in east-central Poland and western Ukraine which rises from the Lublin Upland and extends southeastward through Solska Wilderness and across the border into Ukrainian Podolia. Low and rolling, the range is approximately 180 km long and 14 km wide. Its highest peak within Poland is Wielki Dział at 390 meters, while in Ukraine it is Vysokyi Zamok (Lviv High Castle) at 409 m. In Poland Roztocze lies in the Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodships, while the portion in Ukraine extends all the way to the outskirts of Lviv. The Polish portion of the range makes up the Roztocze National Park.