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Gronówko, Greater Poland Voivodeship

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Gronówko
Village
Gronówko is located in PolandGronówkoGronówko
Coordinates: 51°53′N 16°36′E / 51.883°N 16.600°E / 51.883; 16.600
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyLeszno
GminaLipno
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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Gronówko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipno, within Leszno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Lipno, 5 km (3 mi) north-east of Leszno, and 62 km (39 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Gronówko was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in November 1943, the occupiers established a subcamp of the Oflag XXI-C prisoner-of-war camp in the village. It held British and Dutch officers, with Italian POWs serving as orderlies.

References

  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.
  3. ^ Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
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