Kłomnice 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 ...
in
Częstochowa County
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Częstochowa County ( pl, powiat częstochowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local govern ...
,
Silesian Voivodeship
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, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the
gmina (administrative district) called
Gmina Kłomnice
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Gmina Kłomnice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 admi ...
.
It lies approximately north-east of
Częstochowa and north of the regional capital
Katowice.
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
the village was
occupied by Germany. In September 1944, during the
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...
, the Germans deported 2,000 Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in
Pruszków
Pruszków ( yi, פּרושקאָוו) is a city in east-central Poland, situated in the Masovian Voivodeship since 1999. It was previously in Warszawa Voivodeship (1975–1998). Pruszków is the capital of Pruszków County, located along t ...
, where they were initially imprisoned, to Kłomnice.
Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women with children.
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Gallery
Kościół św. Marcina w Kłomnicach, dzwonnica.jpg, 18th-century belfry
Kłomnice, Grób Nieznanego Żołnierza.jpg, Grave of Polish soldiers killed during the German invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week aft ...
(World War II)
Kłomnice - prywatna przychodnia zdrowia.jpg, Clinic
Kłomnice - staw przeciwpożarowy.jpg, Pond in Kłomnice
References
External links
Jewish Community in Kłomnice
on Virtual Shtetl
Villages in Częstochowa County
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