Stare Babice (; "the Old Babice") is a village in

Warsaw West County __NOTOC__ The Warsaw West County ( pl, powiat warszawski zachodni) is a county in Masovian Voivodeship, located in the east-central Poland, with its seat of government located in Ożarów Mazowiecki. Other towns located in the county are: Łomian ...

Masovian Voivodeship The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The ...

, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Stare Babice __NOTOC__ Gmina Stare Babice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Stare Babice, which lies approximately north-east of Ożarów Mazowiecki an ...

. It lies approximately north-east of

Ożarów Mazowiecki Ożarów Mazowiecki is a town in Poland, just to the west of Warsaw, in Mazowsze Voivodship. It is the capital of Warsaw West County (since January 1, 2006). Its population numbers 11,311 (2018). Transport The Polish National road 92 and Voiv ...

and west of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

. In terms of population, it is the largest village in the district, with a population of 2,056 people as of 31 December 2010.

World War II history

During

occupation of Poland Occupation commonly refers to: * Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment *Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, t ...

in World War II, Babice served as location of mass executions of Jews from the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the N ...

nearby. In 1942, 110 Jews from the Gęsiówka Prison in Warsaw were murdered by the Germans in a single Babice massacre '' (pl)''.

Notes and references

Jewish Community in Stare Babice
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