Goworowo is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of Czerwińsk nad Wisłą, within

Płońsk County Płońsk County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its ad ...

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

, in east-central Poland. Olympian Kazimierz Suchorzewski was born here.

History

During the invasion of Poland, a member of the ''SS-Artillerie-Standarte'' and an Army '' Feldgendarme'' killed 50 Jews in the village. The local German Army commander ordered a court-martial, with the prosecutor demanding the death penalty. The charges were, however, dropped, following intense pressure from Himmler.

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* Villages in Ostrołęka County {{Ostrołęka-geo-stub