Krępiec is a

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in the administrative district of

Gmina Mełgiew __NOTOC__ Gmina Mełgiew is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Mełgiew, which lies approximately east of Świdnik and east of the regional capital Lublin. ...

, within

Świdnik County __NOTOC__ Świdnik County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its ...

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, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of

Mełgiew Mełgiew is a village in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) Gmina Mełgiew. It lies approximately east of Świdnik and east of the regional capital Lublin Lublin is ...

, south-east of

Świdnik Świdnik () is a town in southeastern Poland with 40,186 inhabitants (2012), situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, southeast of the city of Lublin. It is the capital of Świdnik County. Świdnik belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland, ...

, and south-east of the regional capital

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History

As of the 1880s, the village had a distillery, brewery and a watermill. According to the 1921 Polish census, the village had a population of 941, 99.9%

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and 0.1% Ukrainian. Following the German-Soviet

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, which started

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in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1944. In 1942–1943, the German gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliaries murdered a number of Poles and

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, brought from the

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Architecture and monuments

* Old chapel built in the 19th century. * mill built in '20 age of XX century

References

Villages in Świdnik County Holocaust locations in Poland {{Świdnik-geo-stub