| Tarnawa Dolna | |
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| Village | |
.6.jpg) Memorial at the site of the German massacre of Poles committed during World War II | |
  Tarnawa Dolna | |
| Coordinates: 49°28′28″N 22°15′23″E / 49.47444°N 22.25639°E / 49.47444; 22.25639 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Subcarpathian |
| County | Sanok |
| Gmina | Zagórz |
| Population | 940 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | RSA |
| Voivodeship roads |  |
Tarnawa Dolna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zagórz, within Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Zagórz, 9 km (6 mi) south of Sanok, and 65 km (40 mi) south of the regional capital Rzeszów.
History
During the German occupation (World War II), the Gruszka mountain near Tarnawa Dolna was the site of a German massacre of 112 Poles, who were previously imprisoned in nearby Sanok after trying to escape the Germans to take refuge in Hungary (see also: Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).
Notable people
- Władysław Kudlik [pl] (1922–1946), member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II
- Rudolf Poliniewicz [pl] (1925–1946), Polish anti-communist partisan and former forced labourer under Germany
References
- "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 258.
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