Pomieczyno

Pomieczyno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przodkowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

During the German occupation of Poland, Pomieczyno was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion. Local priest Franciszek Bork was murdered during a massacre of Polish priests from the region perpetrated by the Einsatzkommando 16 in November 1939 in the forest near Kartuzy. In February 1942, the German police and SS carried out [Expulsion of Polish people|Poles by Nazi Germany|expulsions of Poles], whose houses were then handed over to new German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. Expelled Poles were deported in freight trains to the camp in Jabłonowo-Zamek and the Potulice concentration camp, and eventually enslaved as [Forced labour under Germans|German rule during World War II|forced labour] of new German colonists, both in the vicinity of Pomieczyno and near Grudziądz.