Kępno
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Kępno is a town in south-central Poland. Kępno is located in the historical Wieluń Land. It lies on the outskirts of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, bordering the historical region of Silesia and the
Town hall
Memorial stone commemorating the Treaty of Kępno from 1282
St. Martin's Church before 1909
Memorial plaque dedicated to the Kępno-born Polish writer Władysław Rabski
During World War II, over 1.7 million Poles were forcibly resettled from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization between 1939 and 1944.
Kępno
…kreis) of the same name within Reichsgau Wartheland. Its population was subject to segregation, Germanisation, confiscation of property, arrests, expulsions, deportations to forced labour, imprisonment in concentration camps and executions. The Germans established and operated a Nazi prison in the town…
Poles expelled in 1939 from Reichsgau Wartheland
Polish Matczak family among Poles expelled in 1939 from Sieradz in central Poland
Expulsion from Reichsgau Wartheland. Poles are led to trains under German army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the German Reich following the invasion.
Expulsion of Poles from Czerniejewo in 1939