The village was the location of the Szebnie concentration camp during German occupation of Poland in World War II. The facility was constructed in 1940 originally as horse stables for the Wehrmacht next to a manorial estate. Thousands of prisoners perished there over the course of the camp's operation, including Russian prisoners of war, Polish Jews and non-Jewish Poles as well as Ukrainians and Romani people. The charred remains of the camp were entered by the Soviets on 8 September 1944.[2]
From February 1944, Szebnie was also the location of the Stalag 325 prisoner-of-war camp relocated from Stryj, and it held mostly wounded POWs and invalids.[6] The Polish resistance helped some 200 POWs escape from the camp.[6] In July 1944, the Germans evacuated the camp, with 300 POWs left behind, and in September 1944 the camp was closed.[6]
References
↑"Główny Urząd Statystyczny"[Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
12Jacek Bracik, Józef Twaróg (2003). "Obóz w Szebniach (Camp in Szebnie)" (in Polish). Region Jasielski, nr 3 (39). Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
↑"HL-Heidelager: SS-TruppenÜbungsPlatz"(with collection of historical photographs). Historia poligonu Heidelager w Pustkowie (in Polish). Pustkow.Republika.pl. 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
123Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp.315, 317–318. ISBN978-0-253-06089-1.
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