Sochy (Zwierzyniec)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Zamość | ||
| Gmina : | Zwierzyniec | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 35 ′ N , 22 ° 57 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 376 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 22-470 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 84 | ||
| License plate : | LZA | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Droga krajowa 17 | ||
| Next international airport : | Lublin | ||
Sochy is a village and Sołectwo in the Gmina Zwierzyniec in the powiat Zamojski . It is located in the Lublin Voivodeship in southeastern Poland.
Geographical location
The landscape was shaped by the Fennoscan ice sheet and is a postglacial , hilly, wooded ground moraine that lies in the catchment area of the Vistula . The region with the Roztocze National Park belongs to the Roztocze . The Wieprz river , a right tributary of the Vistula, flows through Zwierzyniec north of Sochy . Southwest near Sochy is the 310-meter-high Bukowa Góra .
The distance to Biłgoraj is 24, to Lublin 100, to Zamość 33 and to Zwierzyniec five kilometers. Droga krajowa 17 runs through Zamość from Warsaw to the Hrebenne border crossing . The state border with Ukraine near Hrebenne runs 70 kilometers southeast of Sochy.
history
After the Christianization of Poland in 966, the Lendizi came under the rule of Mieszko I. With the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, this region became part of Austria as Western Galicia . From 1807 to 1815 the area belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw and then to Congress Poland .
The village of Sochy was established before 1826. After the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles , the Second Polish Republic was formed in November 1918 . On September 17, 1939, the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland by the Red Army took place . With the German-Soviet War , Sochy was a village in the Lublin district of the Generalgouvernement from summer 1941 .
After Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944, the Lublin Committee temporarily declared the city of Lublin to be the capital of Poland. From the beginning of January 1945 Sochy was in the People's Republic of Poland and belonged to the Zamość Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998 and to the Lublin Voivodeship since 1999.
Massacre on June 1, 1943
At the end of May 1943, two Polish auxiliary policemen disguised as partisans bought weapons in Sochy. When they were recognized by members of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Józefów , one of the policemen was shot and the other managed to escape.
As retaliation for the killed policemen began on June 1st, 1943 at 5:30 am the massacre . During this pacification , soldiers of the Wehrmacht murdered around 200 residents of the village. First, workers rushing to work in Zwierzyniec were shot. The German soldiers shot machine guns from the hills at the residents. After that, Air Force aircraft came into service. Almost all houses were burned down and blown up. The local cemetery and a plaque commemorate the extermination. During an exhumation , 88 male, 52 female and 45 child bones were identified.
Along with Oradour-sur-Glane , Sant'Anna di Stazzema , Lidice , Kalavryta , Distomo, Sochy is one of the towns where civilians fell victim to retaliation during the Second World War.
Literary setting
The contemporary witness Teresa Ferenc (* 1934 in Ruszów near Zamość ) processed what she had experienced in the volume of poems Burned Out Valley (Wypalona dolina), which was published in Warsaw in 1979 . Her daughter Aneta Jankowska published the book Kleine Ausrottung (Mała Zagłada) under the pseudonym Anna Janko in spring 2015 .
literature
- Teresa Ferenc: Burned-out valley (Wypalona dolina). Czytelnik, Warszawa 1979.
- Anna Janko : Small Extinction (Mała Zagłada). Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2015, ISBN 978-83-08-05420-8 .
- Józef Fajkowski, Jan Religa: Zbrodnie hitlerowskie na wsi polskiej 1939–1945 . Wydawnictwo Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1981, p. 456.
Footnotes
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
- ↑ Rzeź w Sochach:… i rozstrzelali I wszystkich. Polskie Radio , 2014, accessed April 30, 2015 (Polish).