Serock,_Kuyavian-Pomeranian_Voivodeship

Serock, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Serock, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

For other places with the same name, see Serock.

Serock [ˈsɛrɔt͡sk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of Pruszcz, 25 km (16 mi) west of Świecie, and 28 km (17 mi) north of Bydgoszcz.

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History

Before the Holocaust, the village had a Jewish community.[2]

In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, the village was a site of massacre of several dozens of Polish prisoners of war by the German troops (the Serock massacre [pl]).[3][4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. [2]
    Tedesco, Richard (2011-08-11). "Seeman gives names back to Holocaust victims". The Island Now. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  3. [3]
    Czarnik, Andrzej (1999). Ósmy Strzelców Konnych w marszu i boju: działania Ósmego Pułku Strzelcoẃ Konnych na Pomorzu Nadwiślańskim w dniach 1-3 września 1939 r (in Polish). Wydawn. Uczelniane, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna w Słupsku. p. 113. ISBN 978-83-87006-03-7.
  4. [4]
    Böhler, Jochen (2009). Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu w Polsce: wrzesień 1939, wojna totalna (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Znak. pp. 185–186. ISBN 978-83-240-1225-1.
  5. [5]
    Sudoł, Tomasz (2011). "Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach polskich we wrześniu 1939 roku" [Wehrmacht crimes against Polish prisoners of war in September 1939] (PDF). Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej. 8–9: 129–130.
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