Szebnie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jasło, within

Jasło County __NOTOC__ Jasło County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gover ...

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, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of

Jasło Jasło is a county town in south-eastern Poland with 36,641 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2012. It is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), and it was previously part of Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located in Lesser ...

and south-west of the regional capital

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History

From 1789 to 1939, it was the seat of the Gorayski

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, and there is a preserved historic manor house of the family in Szebnie.

World War II

The village was the location of the

Szebnie concentration camp Szebnie was a forced-labor camp established during World War II by Nazi Germany in the General Government in the south-eastern part of occupied Poland. It was located near the town of Szebnie approximately east of Jasło and south-west of Rzes ...

during German

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in World War II. The facility was constructed in 1940 originally as horse stables for the

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next to a manorial estate. Thousands of prisoners perished there over the course of the camp's operation, including Russian prisoners of war,

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and non-Jewish

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as well as Ukrainians and

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. The charred remains of the camp were entered by the Soviets on 8 September 1944. There was a SS training facility '' SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager'' nearby at Pustków, for the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division, as well as other collaborationists military formations. Their field training included killing operations at

Szebnie Szebnie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jasło, within Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Jasło and south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. History From 1 ...

. From February 1944, Szebnie was also the location of the Stalag 325

prisoner-of-war camp A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as Prisoner of war, prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, inte ...

relocated from Stryj, and it held mostly wounded POWs and invalids. The Polish resistance helped some 200 POWs escape from the camp. In July 1944, the Germans evacuated the camp, with 300 POWs left behind, and in September 1944 the camp was closed.

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