Krerowo
Krerowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kleszczewo, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
History
Krerowo was a private church village, administratively located in the Pyzdry County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.During the German occupation of Poland, a local teacher was among the victims of a massacre of Poles committed by the Germans in nearby Środa Wielkopolska on 20 October 1939 as part of the genocidal Intelligenzaktion campaign. In 1940–1941, the occupiers carried out [Expulsion of Polish people|Poles by Nazi Germany|expulsions of Poles], whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. Poles expelled in 1940 were placed in a transit camp in Łódź and then deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, whereas Poles expelled in 1941 were enslaved as [Forced labour under Germans|German rule during World War II|forced labour] and sent either to Germany or to new German colonists in the county.