Lipusz

Lipusz [ˈlipuʂ], Formerly "Lippusch", is a village in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Lipusz. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

Lipusz
Village
Old water mill in Lipusz
Lipusz
Coordinates: 54°5′51″N 17°47′4″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Kościerzyna
Gmina	Lipusz
Elevation	150 m (490 ft)
Population	2,403
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	http://www.lipusz.eu

Lipusz was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.^[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 20 Poles from Lipusz, including railwaymen, farmers, millers, a secretary of the local forestry, a teacher and a postman, in the nearby forest (see Intelligenzaktion).^[3] Families of the victims were expelled.^[4] Some Poles from Lipusz were also murdered in the forest near Skarszewy,^[5] and further expulsions of Poles were carried out in 1943 and 1944.^[6] The expellees were either deported to forced labour or to the General Government.^[6]