The county existed between 1921 and 1939, as a direct successor of the Austrian Nadwórna District (German: Bezirk Nadwórna, Polish: Powiat nadwórniański).
History
With the proclamation of the West Ukrainian People's Republic on 1 November 1918,[1] the territory of the Austrian Nadwórna District fell under Ukrainian administration, with Ivan Syanotskyi being appointed district commissioner. Polish troops entered Nadwórna between May 20 and 25 1919;[2] By November 1919 Entente Powers acknowledged Poland's claim to Galicia.[3]
During the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, Petlura's forces killed 6 Jews in Nadwórna and wounded many more.[4] In postwar years, due to persecution and an epidemic, the number of Jews in the county drastically decreased.[5]
In 1938 many local Jews left Nadwórna County, fearing an impending war.[4]
On 15 June 1939, Alois Sornik, a German citizen was murdered in Zielona in Nadwórna County under unclear circumstances. German propaganda would later portray Sornik's death as a political assassination.[10]
The Bad Schandau-based German newspaper Sächsische Elbzeitung would later report on the incident, stating that Sornik was walking from the boarding school in Zielona to the Greek Catholicrectory where he lived, when two men, later identified as forester Wrobel and forest worker Onufrek, knocked Sornik to the ground before beating him. Sornik was taken to the hospital in Nadwórna in the car of a tourist, succumbing to his injures four days later. Sornik's body was later transferred to Ansbach in Bavaria where his parents lived. His two perpetrators were arrested by the public prosecutor's office in Stanisławów.[11]
The newspaper put forth the idea that Sornik's murder was in connection to his brother's political role representing the German minority in Silesia. Sornik's funeral in Ansbach was ceremonially attended by the NSDAP.[citation needed]
World War II
On 20 September 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War, Soviet troops entered Nadwórna, the county's capital. As Polish authorities had fled the city, local Jews organised self-defense units to patrol the city's streets, partaking in the defense of Jewish property against plundering by Ukrainian peasants in the village of Sołotwina.[12]
Delatyn, through which Polish authorities fled en route to Romania, was similarly captured by Soviet forces in late September.[13]
From 1934 to 1939 the Nadwórna County was constituted by 14 "rural municipalities" (Polish: Gminy wiejskie), and two cities — Nadwórna and Delatyn, as per the regulation of the Minister of Internal Affairs from July 21 1934 on the administrative division of the county.[16]
^"Wyłączenie gminy Święty Józef z powiatu politycznego i obszaru działania samorządowej reprezentacji powiatowej nadwórniańskiej a wcielenie do powiatu politycznego i obszaru działania samorządowej reprezentacji powiatowej kołomyjskiej". Dziennik Ustaw (in Polish) (Dz.U.1925.83.573). Rada Ministrów. 1925.
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