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Dobrucowa is a
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Tarnowiec __NOTOC__ Gmina Tarnowiec is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Tarnowiec, which lies approximately east of Jasło and south-west of the regi ...
, 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 Slovakia, Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a re ...
, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Jasło and south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.


World War II

Some two thousand
Polish Jews The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lo ...
were murdered in mass executions at the Dobrucowa Forest in the fall and winter of 1943, on the orders of ''SS-Hauptsturmführer'' Amon Göth from
Płaszów Płaszów is a suburb of Kraków, Poland, now part of Podgórze district. Formerly a separate village, it became a part of the Greater Kraków in 1911 under the Austrian Partition of Poland as the 21st cadastral district of the city. During World ...
. They were transported there from 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 ...
during camp's murderous liquidation.


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{{Gmina Tarnowiec Dobrucowa Holocaust locations in Poland