Tur, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
History
The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1337, when it was part of the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland. Tur was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans expelled several Polish families from the village. Poles were mostly deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. In December 1940, the Germans relocated the Stalag XXI-B prisoner-of-war camp for Allied (mostly British) POWs from Szubin to Tur. In October 1941, the camp was dissolved and the POWs were relocated to the Stalag XXI-D in Poznań and its forced labour subcamps.
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 241. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
- ^ "POW Camps in Szubin (Schubin/Altburgund)". Polish-American Foundation for the Commemoration of POW Camps in Szubin. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Daniluk, Jan; Winiecki, Mariusz (2020). Stalag XXI B/H Thure. Jeńcy wojenni w Turze w latach II wojny światowej (in Polish and English). Translated by Parsons, Alan. Szubin: Polsko-Amerykańska Fundacja Upamiętnienia Obozów Jenieckich w Szubinie. pp. 15, 49. ISBN 978-83-958269-0-0.
- ^ Daniluk; Winiecki, p. 22, 56
