Szonów
Village in Opole Voivodeship, Poland
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Szonów [ˈʂɔnuf] (German: Schönau)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głogówek, within Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the Czech border.[2]
Szonów/Schönau was, for many prisoners of war, a stopping place on 'The Long March' during the final months of the Second World War in Europe. About 30,000 Allied PoWs were force-marched westward by the Germans in appalling winter conditions, lasting about four months from January to April 1945.[3] Three Polish citizens were murdered by Nazi Germany in the village during the war.[4]
