Kaniów, Opole Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Kaniów.

Kaniów
Village
Kaniów
Coordinates: 50°49′50″N 17°50′08″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Opole
County	Opole
Gmina	Popielów
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	OPO

Kaniów [ˈkaɲuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Popielów, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]

The village is traditionally inhabited by the Leśnioki ethnographic subgroup of the Polish people.

History

In the Middle Ages, the village was part of Piast-ruled Poland, and afterwards it was also part of Bohemia (Czechia), Prussia and Germany. During World War II, the Germans operated a forced labour camp for Jews[2] and the E608 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.[3] The village was restored to Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Hirschfelde". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2021.
3. "Working Parties". Lamsdorf.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2021.