Księżomierz is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Gościeradów
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Gmina Gościeradów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Gościeradów, which lies approximately west of Kraśnik and south-west of the regio ...
, within
Kraśnik County,
Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
It lies approximately west of
Kraśnik and south-west 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 ...
.
15 March 1942 Germans pacified the village. They killed a dozen or so persons and burnt buildings.
[Józef Fajkowski, Jan Religa: ''Zbrodnie hitlerowskie na wsi polskiej 1939-1945''. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Książka i Wiedza, 1981, p. 392]
References
Villages in Kraśnik County
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