Rekówka is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Ciepielów
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Gmina Ciepielów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Lipsko County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Ciepielów, which lies approximately north-west of Lipsko and south of Warsaw.
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, within
Lipsko County,
Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Lipsko
Lipsko is a town in eastern Poland, in northern Lesser Poland, Masovian Voivodeship. It is the capital of Lipsko County. The population is 5,895 (2004). Lipsko’s coat of arms is the Dębno, which was used by previous owners of the town.
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and south of
Warsaw.
History
Rekówka was a private village, administratively located in the Radom County in the
Sandomierz Voivodeship in the
Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland,
During the
German occupation
German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...
(
World War II), on December 6, 1942,
German Gendarmerie murdered ten
Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...
from Rekówka who were suspected of
hiding the Jewish refuges. The victims were two men, two women and six children.
References
Villages in Lipsko County
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