Świerże () is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Dorohusk
Gmina Dorohusk is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. Its seat is the village of Dorohusk, which lies approximately east of Chełm and east of the reg ...
, within
Chełm County,
Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern
Poland, close to the border with
Ukraine.
It lies approximately north-west of
Dorohusk, north-east of
Chełm, and east of the regional capital
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
.
The Jewish population of the town numbered at least 800 Jews upon the outbreak of World War II. In October 1942, the Jews from Świerże were forced to walk to the
Sobibór extermination camp, a distance of 40 km. The Jews of Świerże were all murdered.
References
Villages in Chełm County
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