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Jeziorki,_Poznań_County Latitude and Longitude:

52°18′45″N 16°35′36″E / 52.31250°N 16.59333°E / 52.31250; 16.59333
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Jeziorki
Village
Palace in Jeziorki
Palace in Jeziorki
Jeziorki is located in Poland
Jeziorki
Jeziorki
Coordinates: 52°18′45″N 16°35′36″E / 52.31250°N 16.59333°E / 52.31250; 16.59333
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Greater Poland
County Poznań
Gmina Stęszew
Time zone UTC+1 ( CET)
 • Summer ( DST) UTC+2 ( CEST)
Vehicle registrationPZ, POZ
Primary airport Poznań–Ławica Airport

Jeziorki [jɛˈʑɔrki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stęszew, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. [1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Stęszew and 25 km (16 mi) south-west of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Jeziorki was a private church village, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. [2]

During World War II, on 20 January 1945, Jeziorki was the first stop of a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners of various nationalities from the dissolved camp in Żabikowo to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. [3]

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). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
  3. ^ "Ewakuacja piesza". Muzeum Martyrologiczne w Żabikowie (in Polish). Retrieved 30 November 2023.