Tarnawa Dolna
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See also: Tarnawa Dolna, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Village in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland
Tarnawa Dolna | |
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Village | |
| Memorial at the site of the German massacre of Poles committed during World War II Memorial at the site of the German massacre of Poles committed during World War II | |
Tarnawa Dolna is located in Poland Tarnawa Dolna Tarnawa Dolna | |
| Coordinates: 49°28′28′′N 22°15′23′′E / 49.47444°N 22.25639°E / 49.47444; 22.25639 | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Subcarpathian |
| County | Sanok |
| Gmina | Zagórz |
| Population | 940 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | RSA |
| Voivodeship roads | |
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Tarnawa Dolna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zagórz, within Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Zagórz, 9 km (6 mi) south of Sanok, and 65 km (40 mi) south of the regional capital Rzeszów.
History
[edit ]During the German occupation (World War II), the Gruszka mountain near Tarnawa Dolna was the site of a German massacre of 112 Poles, who were previously imprisoned in nearby Sanok after trying to escape the Germans to take refuge in Hungary (see also: Nazi crimes against the Polish nation ).[2]
Notable people
[edit ]- Władysław Kudlik [pl] (1922–1946), member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II
- Rudolf Poliniewicz [pl] (1925–1946), Polish anti-communist partisan and former forced labourer under Germany
References
[edit ]- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008年06月01日.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 258.
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