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Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Morzewo
Village
Church of the Transfiguration in MorzewoChurch of the Transfiguration in Morzewo
Morzewo is located in PolandMorzewoMorzewo
Coordinates: 53°5′0″N 16°53′34″E / 53.08333°N 16.89278°E / 53.08333; 16.89278
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyPiła
GminaKaczory
Population620
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPP

Morzewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaczory, within Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of Kaczory, 13 km (8 mi) south-east of Piła, and 76 km (47 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Memorial at the site of the German massacre of 41 Poles carried out in 1939

Morzewo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on November 7, 1939, the German police carried out a massacre of 41 Poles in the village as part of the Intelligenzaktion. Among the victims were teachers, school principals, priests, policemen, local officials including mayor of the nearby town of Chodzież, merchants, craftsmen, farmers and former insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising from various nearby towns and villages. In 1943, the Germans burned the bodies of the victims in attempt to cover up the crime. In November 1940, several Polish families were expelled from Morzewo to the General Government, and some were deported to forced labour to Germany, while their farms were handed over to German colonists in accordance to the Lebensraum policy.

The main sights of Morzewo are the historic church of the Transfiguration and the memorial at the site of the 1939 massacre.

References

  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1b.
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 200.
  4. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 201. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
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