Grabnik, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Coordinates: 53°15′54″N 22°18′45″E / 53.26500°N 22.31250°E / 53.26500; 22.31250
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Grabnik
Village
Grabnik is located in Poland
Grabnik
Grabnik
Coordinates: 53°15′54″N 22°18′45″E / 53.26500°N 22.31250°E / 53.26500; 22.31250
Country Poland
VoivodeshipPodlaskie
CountyŁomża
GminaJedwabne
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationBLM

Grabnik [ˈɡrabnik] is a settlement, part of the village of Rostki in the administrative district of Gmina Jedwabne, within Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1]

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the settlement was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by Nazi Germany until 1944. There is a known case, in which local Polish woman Janina Wądołowska hid and rescued three Jews from the German-perpetrated Holocaust.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. p. 60.