Tworki, Siedlce County

For other places with the same name, see Tworki.
Tworki
Village
Tworki is located in Poland
Tworki
Tworki
Coordinates: 52°02′37″N 22°17′21″E / 52.04361°N 22.28917°E / 52.04361; 22.28917
Country Poland
VoivodeshipMasovian
CountySiedlce
GminaWiśniew
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationWSI

Tworki [ˈtfɔrki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiśniew, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1]

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.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p. 103.


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