Jaworze Dolne is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Pilzno, within
Dębica County,
Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.
It lies approximately south-east of
Pilzno, south-west of
Dębica
Dębica (; yi, דעמביץ ''Dembitz'') is a town in southeastern Poland with 44,692 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since 1999 it has been situated in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it had previously been in ...
, and west of the regional capital
Rzeszów.
History
Following the joint German-Soviet
invasion of Poland, which started
World War II in September 1939, the village was
occupied by Germany. On February 4, 1943, German troops and
Gestapo perpetrated a massacre of 11 people in Jaworze Dolne.
[ The victims were five Poles and six Jews, whom they sheltered from the Holocaust.]
References
Populated riverside places in Poland
Villages in Dębica County
Holocaust locations in Poland
Sites of World War II massacres of Poles
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