Stara Kiszewa
Stara Kiszewa | |
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Village | |
Saint Martin Church | |
Coordinates: 53°59′24″N 18°10′9″E / 53.99000°N 18.16917°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
County | Kościerzyna |
Gmina | Stara Kiszewa |
Elevation | 117.5 m (385.5 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,480 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vehicle registration | GKS |
Stara Kiszewa [ˈstara kiˈʂɛva] is a village in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Stara Kiszewa.[1] It lies approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south-east of Kościerzyna and 52 km (32 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.
History
[edit]Stara Kiszewa was a royal village of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on November 19, 1939, the Germans murdered 12 Polish farmers from Stara Kiszewa in a massacre in the nearby village Nowy Wiec.[3] Poles were also subjected to expulsions, carried out in late 1939, January 1940 and in 1942.[4] In August 1941, two Poles escaped from a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in Gdańsk to Stara Kiszewa and received aid in the village.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. pp. 110−111.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 155.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 52, 117. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
- ^ Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 1437. ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3.