Suchanino ( csb, Cëgónczi, german: Zigankenberg) is a district of
Gdańsk,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, located in the central part of the city.
With 12,937 inhabitants in an area of 1.3 km
2 it has a population density of 9,812 inhabitants/km
2. Most buildings are high-rise and were constructed in the 1970s.
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 of the
Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German- ...
in the district.
The prisoners were subjected to
forced labour at a local
brickyard.
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References
External links
Map of Suchanino
Old map of Zigankenberg
* http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Zigankenberg
* http://www.xs4all.nl/~wolfzim/origine.html
Districts of Gdańsk
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