Nieżywięć is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Bobrowo
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Gmina Bobrowo (German language, German: ''Bobrau'') is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Brodnica County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Bobrowo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodesh ...
, within
Brodnica County,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
It lies approximately west of
Bobrowo, west of
Brodnica, and north-east of
Toruń. It is located in the
Chełmno Land in the historic region of
Pomerania.
History
During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), Nieżywięć was one of the sites of executions of
Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...
, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the ''
Intelligenzaktion''. A local teacher was among the victims of large massacres of Poles from the region, committed by the German police and ''
Selbstschutz'' in October 1939 in the nearby
Brzezinki forest in the county.
References
Villages in Brodnica County
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