Licheń is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Strzelce Krajeńskie
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Gmina Strzelce Krajeńskie is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Strzelce-Drezdenko County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Its seat is the town of Strzelce Krajeńskie, which lies approximately north-east of Gorzà ...
, within
Strzelce-Drezdenko County
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Strzelce-Drezdenko County ( pl, powiat strzelecko-drezdenecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish ...
,
Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.
It lies approximately north-east of
Strzelce Krajeńskie and north-east of
Gorzów Wielkopolski
Gorzów Wielkopolski (; german: Landsberg an der Warthe) often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów, is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the second largest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 120,087 inhabitants (Decemb ...
.
History
During
World War II, the Germans enslaved Poles 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 ...
in the village, and two Polish brothers, aged 23 and 21, were publicly executed by the
Gestapo on 23 April 1942.
References
Villages in Strzelce-Drezdenko County
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