Mała Nieszawka is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Wielka Nieszawka, within
Toruń County
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Toruń County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...
,
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* Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament.
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, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of
Wielka Nieszawka and south-west of
Toruń
Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...
.
History
Polish–
Teutonic peace talks, which ended the
Thirteen Years' War, were held in the settlement at the turn of September and October 1466.
During the
German occupation (
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
), in November 1939,
Polish teachers from Mała Nieszawka were murdered by the Germans in Barbarka (present-day district of Toruń) during
a massacre of Polish teachers from the region carried out as part of the ''
Intelligenzaktion
The ''Intelligenzaktion'' (), or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders committed against the Polish people, Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) during the ...
''. Poles were also subjected to
expulsions, carried out in November 1940.
References
Populated places on the Vistula
Villages in Toruń County
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