Nowy Bidaczów is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Biłgoraj Gmina Biłgoraj is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Biłgoraj, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers an area of , ...

, within Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital

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History

Nowy Bidaczów was part of the Zamoyski family entail. In 1827, the villages of Nowy Bidaczów and Stary Bidaczów had a combined population of 289. Following the joint German-Soviet

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 ...

, which started

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in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. On October 6, 1942, the

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and SS carried out a massacre of 22

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farmers, as punishment for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust.

References

Populated riverside places in Poland Villages in Biłgoraj County Sites of World War II massacres of Poles Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland {{Biłgoraj-geo-stub