Bysław (german: Groß Bislaw) is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Lubiewo
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Gmina Lubiewo is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Tuchola County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Lubiewo, which lies approximately south-east of Tuchola and north of Bydgo ...
, within
Tuchola County,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Lubiewo, south-east of
Tuchola
Tuchola (german: Tuchel; csb, Tëchòlô) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. The Pomeranian town, which is the seat of Tuchola County, had a population of 13,418 .
Geographical location
Tuchola lies about n ...
, and north of
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
. It is located within the
Tuchola Forest in the historic region of
Pomerania.
In 2002 the village had a population of 1,513.
History
The name of the village comes from the
Old Polish male name Zbysław. Bysław was a royal village of the
Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tuchola County in the
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 ...
.
During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), the Germans murdered several
Polish
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farmers and the local priest during large massacres of Poles in
Rudzki Most
Rudzki Most (, german: Rudabrück/Raudenbrück) is a district of Tuchola, Poland, located in the south-eastern part of the town, along the west bank of the Brda River. It is on the edge of the Tuchola Landscape Park, and was incorporated into th ...
. In 1941, the Germans
expelled 105 Poles, who were initially 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 ...
, where two children died, and afterwards some were deported to
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 ...
to Germany.
Their farms were handed over to
German
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colonists as part of the ''
Lebensraum'' policy.
[ Further expulsions were carried out in 1942–1943.][Wardzyńska (2017), p. 121, 135]
References
Villages in Tuchola County
Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939)
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