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Rusocin, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rusocin [ruˈsɔt͡ɕin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz Gdański, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) south of Pruszcz Gdański and 16 km (10 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.
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History
Rusocin was a private village owned by various Polish nobles, incl. the Dąbrowski and Wojanowski families, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.[2] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772.
During World War II, from September 1944 to February 1945, the village was the location of a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp, in which Nazi Germans imprisoned around 300 Jewish women as forced labour.[3]
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Transport
The village is located close to the start/end point of the A1 and S6 highways.
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