Kuchnia (german: Küche) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within

Tczew County __NOTOC__ Tczew County ( pl, powiat tczewski, csb, Dërszewo kréj) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish ...

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The ...

, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Gniew, south-east of Tczew, and south of the regional capital

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

. It is located on the left bank of the Vistula river, within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania. The village has a population of 144.

History

During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1941, the ''Einsatzkompanie Gotenhafen'', '' Schutzpolizei'' and SS carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to

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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy. Expelled Poles were enslaved as

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 ...

and sent either to

colonists in the region or to Germany.

References

Populated places on the Vistula Villages in Tczew County {{Tczew-geo-stub