Stefanków is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Chlewiska
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Gmina Chlewiska is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Szydłowiec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Chlewiska, which lies approximately west of Szydłowiec and south of Warsaw. The ...
, within
Szydłowiec County
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Szydłowiec County ( pl, powiat szydłowiecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gove ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
It lies approximately west of
Chlewiska, west of
Szydłowiec
Szydłowiec (; Hebrew: שידלוביץ, Yiddish: שידלאָווצע; German: ''Schiedlowietz'') is a town in Szydłowiec County, Mazovian Voivodeship, south-central Poland, with 5,243 inhabitants (December 31, 2005). It is the seat of Gmina ...
, and south of
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
.
History
Within the Polish Kingdom, the village was administratively located in the
Sandomierz Voivodeship
Sandomierz Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo Sandomierskie, la, Palatinatus Sandomirensis) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of the Lesser Poland ...
in the
.
In 1827, it had a population of 101.
During the
German occupation of Poland
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(
World War II
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), on March 29, 1940, the Germans murdered 69
Poles
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from Stefanków in a massacre committed in the Firlej district in the city of
Radom (see ''
Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, consisted of the murder of ...
'').
References
Villages in Szydłowiec County
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