Skarszew
Sign in to saveSkarszew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żelazków, within Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland.
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It sits within the topics Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland and Villages in Kalisz County.
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- Official name
- Skarszew
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Gmina Żelazków
- Population
- 637
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Licence plate code
- PKA
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- male population
- 298
- female population
- 339
- P8168
- Neotis
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skarszew” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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