Ruszkowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

52°14′N 17°20′E / 52.233°N 17.333°E / 52.233; 17.333Country

PolandVoivodeshipGreater PolandCountyŚroda WielkopolskaGminaŚroda WielkopolskaPopulation

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Ruszkowo [ruʂˈkɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Środa Wielkopolska, within Środa Wielkopolska County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of Środa Wielkopolska and 34 km (21 mi) south-east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[2] Expelled Poles were either enslaved as forced labour of new German colonists in the county or placed in a transit camp in Łódź and afterwards deported in freight trains to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.^[2]

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ ^a ^b Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 197. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.