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See also: Apolonka, Łódź Voivodeship Village in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Apolonka
Village
Apolonka is located in PolandApolonkaApolonka
Coordinates: 50°42′N 19°29′E / 50.700°N 19.483°E / 50.700; 19.483
Country Poland
VoivodeshipSilesian
CountyCzęstochowa
GminaJanów
Population68
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationSCZ

Apolonka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Janów, within Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Janów, 29 km (18 mi) south-east of Częstochowa, and 61 km (38 mi) north-east of the regional capital Katowice.

Exhumation of the bodies of the victims of the 1940 German-perpetrated massacre in Apolonka (1946)

During the German occupation (World War II), in June and July 1940, the German police committed three massacres of around 60 Poles from nearby Częstochowa in the village (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). Among the victims were 20 girl scouts.

References

  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 267.
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