Łyśniewo Sierakowickie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy County,

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The ...

, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Sierakowice, west of Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

. It is located between the Miemino, Trzono and Długie lakes, within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Łyśniewo was a royal village of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Mirachowo County in the

. During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1939, some

Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...

from Łyśniewo Sierakowickie were among the victims of a massacre committed by the Germans in nearby Kaliska as part of the genocidal '' Intelligenzaktion'' campaign. In 1944, the German police carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported to the

Potulice concentration camp Potulice concentration camp (german: UWZ Lager Lebrechtsdorf– Potulitz) was a concentration camp established and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II in Potulice near Nakło in the territory of occupied Poland. Until the spring of 1941 i ...

, while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.

References

Populated lakeshore places in Poland Villages in Kartuzy County {{Kartuzy-geo-stub