Ruszów (german: Rauscha) is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Węgliniec, within
Zgorzelec County
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Zgorzelec County ( pl, powiat zgorzelecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
,
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
Ruszów is within the historic
Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia (german: Oberlausitz ; hsb, Hornja Łužica ; dsb, Górna Łužyca; szl, Gōrnŏ Łużyca; pl, Łużyce Górne or ''Milsko''; cz, Horní Lužice) is a historical region in Germany and Poland. Along with Lower Lusatia to the ...
, homeland of
Lusatian Sorbs. It lies approximately north of
Węgliniec
Węgliniec (german: Kohlfurt) is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the border with Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Węgliniec.
The town lies appr ...
, north-east of
Zgorzelec
Zgorzelec (, german: link=no, Görlitz, szl, Gorlice, Upper Lusatian German dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', and ''Gerltsch'', hsb, Zhorjelc, dsb, Zgórjelc, cz, Zhořelec) is a town in southwestern Poland with 30,374 inhabitants (2019). It ...
, and west of the regional capital
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
.
The village has an approximate population of 2,000.
During
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 opposing ...
the Germans established and operated a
subcamp
Subcamps (german: KZ-Außenlager), also translated as satellite camps, were outlying detention centres (''Haftstätten'') that came under the command of a main concentration camp run by the SS in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. The Nazi ...
of the
Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the village, whose prisoners were
Jews
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
.
In the final stages of World War II, a temporary hospital of the
Second Polish Army was located in the village.
Gallery
Ruszów,kościół z zewnątrz 02.jpg, Church of the Resurrection of Christ
Park w Ruszowie - panoramio (1).jpg, Park in Ruszów
Dom Kultury w Ruszowie - panoramio.jpg, Culture centre
Szkoła Podstawowa w Ruszowie - panoramio.jpg, Elementary school
References
Villages in Zgorzelec County
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