Stadnicka Wola is a
village
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in the administrative district of
Gmina Końskie
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Gmina Końskie is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Końskie, which lies approximately north of the regional capital Kielce.
The g ...
, within
Końskie County
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Końskie County ( pl, powiat konecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ...
,
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
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, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately south of
Końskie
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and north-west of the regional capital
Kielce
Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...
.
During the
German occupation of Poland
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(
World War II
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), the Germans carried out a massacre of 27
Poles
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in the forest of Stadnicka Wola on April 8, 1940 (see also ''
Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
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'').
Notable people
*
Jadwiga Janus (1931–2019), Polish sculptor
References
Villages in Końskie County
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