Kamion, Łódź Voivodeship
Village in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
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Kamion [ˈkamjɔn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wierzchlas, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.[1]
Kamion | |
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Village | |
Warta River in Kamion | |
  Kamion Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 51°9′12″N 18°44′38″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Łódź |
| County | Wieluń |
| Gmina | Wierzchlas |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | EWI |
History
Kamion was royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Wieluń County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France, and others were deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[3] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]
