During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Żelistrzewo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] Local teachers were among the victims of the large massacres in Piaśnica, also perpetrated by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4] In 1939, 1940 and 1942, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were afterwards either deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, or sent to forced labour in the county and other regions.[5] Houses of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.
Transport
There is a train station in Żelistrzewo.
References
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^Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 103.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^The Pomeranian Crime 1939. Warsaw: IPN. 2018. p. 47.
^Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 148.
^Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 54, 70, 119. ISBN978-83-8098-174-4.