Witowice
Village
Witowice is located in Poland
Witowice
Witowice
Witowice is located in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Witowice
Witowice
Coordinates: 52°35′31″N 18°25′31″E / 52.59194°N 18.42528°E / 52.59194; 18.42528
Country Poland
VoivodeshipKuyavian-Pomeranian
CountyInowrocław
GminaKruszwica
Population
100
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationCIN

Witowice [vitɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kruszwica, within Inowrocław County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1]

Location

It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Kruszwica, 25 km (16 mi) south-east of Inowrocław, and 51 km (32 mi) south of Toruń.

History

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Witowice was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2] A local teacher was among the victims of a massacre of Poles from the region, committed by the Germans on November 1, 1939, in the forest near Gniewkowo.[3] In 1940, the occupiers expelled the entire population of the village, which was then placed in a transit camp in Łódź and eventually deported to the Lublin District of the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[4] Houses of expelled Poles were handed over to new German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ The Pomeranian Crime 1939. Warsaw: IPN. 2018. p. 47.
  3. ↑ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 208.
  4. 1 2 Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 234. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.



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