Pniewo,_Pułtusk_County

Pniewo, Pułtusk County

Pniewo, Pułtusk County

Village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

For other places with the same name, see Pniewo.

Pniewo [ˈpɲɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zatory, within Pułtusk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Zatory, 14 km (9 mi) south-east of Pułtusk, and 52 km (32 mi) north of Warsaw.

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History

Pniewo was a private church village within the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 9, 1939, Wehrmacht troops murdered a dozen or so Poles from the nearby town of Wyszków near the village (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. [2]
    Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 96.
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