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Prudziszki
Village in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Prudziszki [pruˈd͡ʑiʂki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jeleniewo, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[2] It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) south of Jeleniewo, 10 km (6 mi) north of Suwałki, and 118 km (73 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.
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History
According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 293, entirely Polish by nationality and Roman Catholic by confession.[3]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on April 26, 1940, the Germans carried out a massacre of 13 Poles from the region in the forest of Prudziszki as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4] Among the murdered were teachers, a local official and a military officer.[4]
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