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Albertów.
Village in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Albertów [alˈbɛrtuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipie, within Kłobuck County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) north-east of Lipie, 15 km (9 mi) north-west of Kłobuck, and 88 km (55 mi) north of the regional capital Katowice.
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 3, 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 159 Poles in the village.[2] The victims were inhabitants of Albertów and its surroundings (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2]
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