Okalewo is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Skrwilno __NOTOC__ Gmina Skrwilno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Rypin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Skrwilno, which lies approximately south-east of Rypin and east of Toruń. ...

, within Rypin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north of

Skrwilno Skrwilno is a village in Rypin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Skrwilno. It lies approximately south-east of Rypin and east of Toruń. The v ...

, east of

Rypin Rypin (german: Rippin) is a town in north-central Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, about 50 km east of Toruń. It is the capital of Rypin County. Population is 16,950 (2009). History Rypin was founded in the Middle Ages, and ...

, and east of

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. The village has a population of 900.

History

In 1827, the village had a population of 341. A steam mill was built in 1869. During the

German occupation of Poland German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

(

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 opposin ...

), local teachers were among Polish teachers from the county deceitfully gathered at a supposed formal meeting and then massacred in

in November 1939 (see '' Intelligenzaktion''). Furthermore, a Polish teacher from Sławianowo was murdered by the occupiers in the forest of Okalewo.Wardzyńska, p. 81

Notable people

Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski (1892–1944) was a Polish military officer and a brigadier general of the Polish Army. Czesław Fijałkowski was born on 14 April 1892 in Okalewo (now in Rypin County), in the Płock Governorate of Congress Poland, ...

(1892–1944), brigadier general of the Polish Army

References

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