Osie (, german: Osche) is a village in

Świecie County __NOTOC__ Świecie County ( pl, powiat świecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...

, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Osie __NOTOC__ Gmina Osie is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Osie, which lies approximately north of Świecie, north-east of Bydgoszcz, an ...

. It lies approximately north of Świecie, north-east of Bydgoszcz, and north of Toruń. The village has a population of 2,520. The seat of the Wda Landscape Park is located in Osie.

History

During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), Osie 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'', and inhabitants of Osie were also among the victims of a massacre of Poles committed by the German '' Selbstschutz'' in nearby Jastrzębie in January 1940. In 1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to a transit camp in Tczew, and then deported to the Warsaw District of the

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(German-occupied central Poland), while their farms were then handed over to

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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.

References

Osie Osie (, german: Osche) is a village in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Osie. It lies approximately north of Świecie, north-east of By ...

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