Jasice is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Wojciechowice
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Gmina Wojciechowice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Wojciechowice, which lies approximately east of Opatów and east of th ...
, within
Opatów County,
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately east of
Wojciechowice, east of
Opatów, and east of the regional capital
Kielce
Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...
. It is completely surrounded by the area of the village of Bidziny on all sides.
History
The town of Jasice was formed by Nazi Germany during World War II, due to several routing errors of trains traveling across
occupied Poland. The railway station in Bidziny was renamed Jasice in order to resolve the issue. The significance of the new name lay in the fact that the station was used as point of departure for the
Holocaust trains. For example, the
Opatów Ghetto
The Opatów Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the town of Opatów during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of Jews confined to the ghe ...
was liquidated entirely through the Jasice deportation to
Treblinka extermination camp in the north.
Soon after the war ended, several homes built in the vicinity of the station were assigned the name of Jasice village incorrectly, rather than Bidziny, thus leading to the development of the village of Jasice which consists of the Station and several close houses only. To highlight this, the local farm supplies store which is approximate 20 m from the station on the same road is located in Bidziny in addition to several nearby houses.
References
{{Gmina Wojciechowice
Villages in Opatów County