Szebnie

Szebnie
Village
Szebnie is located in Poland
Szebnie
Szebnie
Coordinates: 49°46′N 21°36′E / 49.767°N 21.600°E / 49.767; 21.600
Country Poland
VoivodeshipSubcarpathian
CountyJasło
GminaJasło
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationRJS

Szebnie [ˈʂɛbɲɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jasło, within Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Jasło and 42 km (26 mi) south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.[1]

History

From 1789 to 1939, it was the seat of the Gorayski noble family, and there is a preserved historic manor house of the family in Szebnie.

World War II

Memorial to the victims of the Szebnie concentration camp

The village was the location of the Szebnie concentration camp during German occupation of Poland in World War II. The facility was constructed in 1940 originally as horse stables for the Wehrmacht next to a manorial estate. Thousands of prisoners perished there over the course of the camp's operation, including Russian prisoners of war, Polish Jews and non-Jewish Poles as well as Ukrainians and Romani people. The charred remains of the camp were entered by the Soviets on 8 September 1944.[2]

There was a SS training facility SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager nearby at Pustków, for the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division,[3] as well as other collaborationists military formations.[4] Their field training included killing operations at Szebnie.[2][5]

From February 1944, Szebnie was also the location of the Stalag 325 prisoner-of-war camp relocated from Stryj, and it held mostly wounded POWs and invalids.[6] The Polish resistance helped some 200 POWs escape from the camp.[6] In July 1944, the Germans evacuated the camp, with 300 POWs left behind, and in September 1944 the camp was closed.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 1 June 2008.
  2. ^ a b Jacek Bracik, Józef Twaróg (2003). "Obóz w Szebniach (Camp in Szebnie)" (in Polish). Region Jasielski, nr 3 (39). Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  3. ^ "HL-Heidelager: SS-TruppenÜbungsPlatz" (with collection of historical photographs). Historia poligonu Heidelager w Pustkowie (in Polish). Pustkow.Republika.pl. 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  4. ^ Terry Goldsworthy (2010). Valhalla's Warriors (Google Books preview). Dog Ear Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 978-1608446391. Retrieved 5 July 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Howard Margolian (2000). Unauthorized entry: the truth about Nazi war criminals in Canada, 1946–1956. University of Toronto Press. p. 132. ISBN 0802042775. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 315, 317–318. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.

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