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Bierówka is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Jasło __NOTOC__ Gmina Jasło is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Jasło, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers ...
, within
Jasło County __NOTOC__ Jasło County ( pl, powiat jasielski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of ...
, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Jasło and south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.


World War II

Bierówka is the location of World War II cemetery situated at Bierowskie Doły (pictured), with unmarked mass graves of prisoners of the
Szebnie concentration camp , image = ObozSzebnie43.svg , image size = 270px , type = Forced-labor camp , caption = ''Top:'' plan of the camp, September 1943 Location of KL Szebnie in World War II,east of Plaszow concentration camp , map relief ...
nearby, covering the entire perimeter. Notably, the old monument mentions only the Soviet prisoners of war from
Szebnie Szebnie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jasło, within Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Jasło and south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. World War II ...
. Over the course of the camp's operation some 10,000 people perished there, including Soviet POWs, Polish Jews and non-Jewish Poles as well as Ukrainians and Romani people.


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* World War II casualties of Poland Villages in Jasło County Holocaust locations in Poland {{Jasło-geo-stub