Skarszew
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Skarszew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żelazków, within Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland.
==History== Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. On 16 and 19 January 1945, the Gestapo carried out a massacre of some 70 Polish resistance members, including women, in the village.
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