Kobylany is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Terespol
Gmina Terespol is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the town of Terespol, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmi ...
, within
Biała Podlaska County Biała (the feminine form of Polish ''biały'' 'white') may refer to:
Cities and towns in Poland Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
*Biała, Gmina Trzcianka
* Biała, Gmina Wieleń
* Biała, Kalisz County
* Biała, Konin County
Łód ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern
Poland, close to the border with
Belarus.
It lies approximately south of
Terespol, east of
Biała Podlaska
Biała Podlaska ( la, Alba Ducalis) is a city in eastern Poland with 56,498 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the capital of Biała Podlaska Voivodeship (1975–1998). ...
, and north-east of the regional capital
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
.
History
The Nazis established a labor camp, which existed between autumn 1942 and February 1944, for Jews from Czechoslovakia and surrounding towns and villages. There were Jews from the
Terespol ghetto among the camp prisoners. Frequently, the Jews who were deemed unfit for work were shot in a forest near the camp. According to the Polish archives, more than 800 Jews from the
Malaszewicze labor camp were also shot in a forest near Kobylany in several mass graves. One of the execution sites is located in Kobylany, close to the former fort. The executions lasted from 1943 till 1944.
References
Villages in Biała Podlaska County
Holocaust locations in Poland
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