Buk Góralski is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Jabłonowo Pomorskie
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Gmina Jabłonowo Pomorskie is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Brodnica County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Jabłonowo Pomorskie, which lies approximately north-wes ...
, within
Brodnica County
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Brodnica County ( pl, powiat brodnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish loca ...
,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
It lies east of
Jabłonowo Pomorskie
Jabłonowo Pomorskie (Polish pronunciation: ; german: Jablonowo, 1903-1945: ''Goßlershausen'') is a town in the Brodnica powiat of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. As of 2018, the town had a population of 3,783. It is located in the C ...
, north-west of
Brodnica, and north-east of
Toruń
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Massacre during Second World War
During the German
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week aft ...
in 1939, German forces on 21 September together with
Selbstschutz
''Selbstschutz'' (German for "self-protection") is the name given to different iterations of ethnic-German self-protection units formed both after the First World War and in the lead-up to the Second World War.
The first incarnation of the ''Selb ...
murdered 12 people in the village.
[Szymon Datner "55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce" page 433]
References
Villages in Brodnica County
Massacres in Poland
Germany–Poland relations
Nazi war crimes in Poland
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