Dąbrówka Nowa is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Sicienko __NOTOC__ Gmina Sicienko is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Sicienko, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Sicienko, which lies approximat ...

, within

Bydgoszcz County __NOTOC__ Bydgoszcz County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passe ...

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly is the regional legislature of t ...

, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Sicienko and north-west of

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...

History

According to the 1921 census, it had a population of 161, entirely

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by nationality. During the

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(

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), in 1941, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were mostly deported to the

Potulice concentration camp Potulice concentration camp () was a concentration camp established and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II in Potulice near Nakło in the territory of occupied Poland. Until the spring of 1941 it was a subcamp of the Stutthof concentra ...

, while their houses and farms were handed over to

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colonists as part of the ''

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'' policy. In 1945, the village was the site of the Soviet-perpetrated

Dąbrówka Nowa Massacre The Dąbrówka Nowa Massacre occurred on 22 January 1945 in Dąbrówka Nowa in Poland, when a unit of the Red Army advancing from Nakło to Bydgoszcz killed over 100 unarmed members of the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian). ...

References

Sites of Soviet World War II crimes in Poland Villages in Bydgoszcz County {{Bydgoszcz-geo-stub