Glinojeck is a town in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
, with 3,087 inhabitants (2004).
History
A
sugar refinery
A sugar refinery is a refinery which processes raw sugar from cane or sugar extracted from beets into white refined sugar.
Cane sugar mills traditionally produce raw sugar, which is sugar that still contains molasses, giving it color ...
was founded in Glinojeck in 1858.
During the
German occupation (
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
), disabled people from Glinojeck were murdered by the Germans in a massacre carried out in February 1940 in the nearby village of
Ościsłowo.
References
Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship
Ciechanów County
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