Monkinie

Monkinie,, is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowinka, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
During the German occupation of Poland, the Germans arrested multiple members of the local Polish [resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance movement], including local parish priest Bolesław Cieciuchowski, and then murdered 12 resistance members near Suwałki on September 29, 1943. The priest was then buried by his brother and local parishioners in Monkinie.