Tur, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1337, when it was part of the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland. Tur was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.^[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans expelled several Polish families from the village.^[3] Poles were mostly deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3] In December 1940, the Germans relocated the Stalag XXI-B prisoner-of-war camp for Allied (mostly British) POWs from Szubin to Tur.^[4][5] In October 1941, the camp was dissolved and the POWs were relocated to the Stalag XXI-D in Poznań and its forced labour subcamps.^[6]