Dąbrówka Mała () is a district of

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

. It has an area of 3.68 km² and in 2007 had 5,411 inhabitants. During the

German occupation German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...

( World War II), on April 3–4, 1940, the German police committed a massacre of 40

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 ...

from Katowice in Dąbrówka Mała (see '' Nazi crimes against the Polish nation''). The occupiers also operated a ''

Polenlager The ''Polenlager'' (, ''Polish Camps'') was a system of forced labor camps in Silesia that held Poles during the World War II Nazi German occupation of Poland. The prisoners, originally destined for deportation across the border to the new semi-c ...

forced labour Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

camp for Poles in Dąbrówka Mała.

Sights

Landmarks of Dąbrówka Mała include the Saint Anthony church and the former Dąbrówka Mała Gmina Office (now a healthcare center). There are two parks in the district: ''Park w Dąbrówce'' and ''Park Zielony Zakątek''. At ''Plac Żołnierzy Września'', the district's main square, there is a monument dedicated to Poles massacred by the Germans in Dąbrówka Mała on April 3–4, 1940.

Gallery

Katowice - Dąbrówka Mała 016.jpg, Saint Anthony church Katowice - Dąbrówka Mała 240.jpg, Former gmina office Żołnierzy Września Square in Katowice (9).jpg, Monument to Poles massacred in 1940 Katowice - Dąbrówka Mała 113.jpg, Old tenement houses Katowice - Dąbrówka Mała 295.jpg, Park Zielony Zakątek

References

Districts of Katowice Sites of World War II massacres of Poles Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland {{Silesian-geo-stub