Kopaniny is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Lututów __NOTOC__ Gmina Lututów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wieruszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Lututów, which lies approximately east of Wieruszów and south-west of the regional ...

, within

Wieruszów County __NOTOC__ Wieruszów County ( pl, powiat wieruszowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ...

, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north of

Lututów Lututów is a small town in Wieruszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Lututów. It lies approximately east of Wieruszów and south-west of the regional capit ...

, north-east of

Wieruszów Wieruszów (; german: Weruschau) is a town in south-central Poland with 8,446 inhabitants (2020). Situated in the southwestern part of Łódź Voivodeship, it is the seat of the Gmina Wieruszów and Wieruszów County. The town is situated al ...

, and south-west of the regional capital Łódź.

History

During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in December 1941 and January 1942, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in nearby Wieluń, and then deported either to the

General Government The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...

in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland or to

forced labour Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

in Germany, while their houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.

References

Villages in Wieruszów County {{Wieruszów-geo-stub