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discovered by soldiers. Despite pleading to be allowed to get out, they were forced to stay as
Germans threw down several grenades, murdering 14 women and children on the spot and wounding 3 of them. Several local men were later kidnapped and sent to German concentration camps. At least two were executed already on their way to the camps. A day later the same Germans who committed the murder came back and burned down 20 homes along with the livestock.
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for animals. Eight people were murdered in this way alongside
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in 1939, German soldiers conducted a number of massacres in the area. In the village of
Wieszanów on 1 September 1939, 17 women and children (as young as 2 years old) were murdered en masse after two men were murdered by German soldiers. Women and children tried to hide themselves in cellars but were
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saved his father's life by sacrificing himself. Later during the night another massacre was made by the German soldiers. Four unidentified Polish PoWs were taken to the village and murdered. All together the cemetery in Wyszanów is the place of burial of 57 victims of German massacres.
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all men from the village were gathered by the
Germans, and every second one was led to a group that was executed in front of all the villagers. 18 men were murdered this way. A Polish woman(Maria Stambuła) who according to Germans refused to watch the
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The county covers an area of 576.22 square kilometres (222.5 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 42,336, out of which the population of
Wieruszów is 8,759 and the rural population is 33,577.
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of several children pleaded to be exchanged for his 70-year-old father Stanisław
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Germans who behaved as they were making a
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dead on his backyard by the
Germans just as his family was burning alive in the cellar. On the same
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was shot severely by the
Germans as well. During the massacre a 40-year-old Józef Sadowski and a
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passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is
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Sites of Nazi war crimes during the Invasion of Poland
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111:County in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
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176:Coordinates (Wieruszów):
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518:to the north-west.
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121:Powiat wieruszowski
440:Torzeniec Massacre
433:Invasion of Poland
431:During the German
427:Wieszanów Massacre
349: • Rural
322: • Total
309: • Total
59:"Wieruszów County"
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400:Poland
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