Tworki, Siedlce County
Tworki [ˈtfɔrki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiśniew, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
History
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1944. In January 1944, the German gendarmerie carried out a massacre of nine people in Tworki. The victims were 38-year-old Zofia Krasuska, her 5-year-old son Stanisław Krasuski, and seven Jews, whom she sheltered from the Holocaust.
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p. 103.
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