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Village in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Rotki
Village
Rotki is located in PolandRotkiRotki
Coordinates: 52°28′25″N 22°36′06″E / 52.47361°N 22.60167°E / 52.47361; 22.60167
Country Poland
VoivodeshipPodlaskie
CountySiemiatycze
GminaDrohiczyn

Rotki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Drohiczyn, within Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.

World War II

During German occupation of Poland, the Nazis set up a stone quarry in Rotki for the purpose of slave labor by the Polish Jews from the Łomża Ghetto. About three hundred people worked in it, before they were shipped to Auschwitz for extermination in November 1942.

References

  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Qiryat Tiv'on, "Lomza from its beginnings," translated from Yiddish by Stan Goodman, original published by Pinkas haKehilot branch of Yad Vashem, Israel
Gmina Drohiczyn
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