Sońsk

Sońsk is a village in Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sońsk.

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Settlement.name: Sońsk
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Sońsk.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ in Sońsk
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Voivodeship
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Masovian
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Ciechanów
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Gmina
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Sońsk
Settlement.pushpin_map: Poland

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Sońsk is a village in Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sońsk.

==History== During the German occupation in World War II, in 1941, the occupiers established a forced labour camp for Poles, Jews and Russians in the village. Some prisoners were executed. In 1944, the camp was dissolved and surviving prisoners were deported to Germany.