Brzoza is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Biała, within
Wieluń County
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Wieluń County ( pl, powiat wieluński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...
,
Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.
It lies approximately south of
Biała, west of
Wieluń, and south-west of the regional capital
Łódź.
History
In 1827, Brzoza had a population of 169.
During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out
expulsions of Poles, who were either enslaved as
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
in the region or deported to the
General Government
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in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland. Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to
German
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colonists as part of the ''
Lebensraum'' policy.
[Wardzyńska, p. 255]
References
Villages in Wieluń County
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