Gąsiorów | |
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Village | |
  Gąsiorów | |
| Coordinates: 52°12′N 18°32′E / 52.200°N 18.533°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Koło |
| Gmina | Kościelec |
Gąsiorów [ɡɔ̃ˈɕɔruf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kościelec, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Kościelec, 7 km (4 mi) west of Koło, and 113 km (70 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań.
People from Gąsiorów
- Dominik Kujawa (1 January 1900, Gąsiorów, Koło County – 22 August 1942), butcher and grocery store owner who lived in the village of Biechowy in the Konin district when in the fall of 1941, when the area had been incorporated into Germany as Reichsgau Wartheland following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, he provided the Soviet soldier Fiodor Azarow, who had escaped from German captivity, with bread, a small amount of money and some tobacco. After Azarov's capture Kujawa was among those Poles arrested by the Gestapo at the beginning of 1942. On May 28, 1942, Dominik Kujawa was sentenced to death by the 2nd Senate of the German “People's Court” for “damaging the welfare of the Reich in connection with treasonous favoring of the enemy” and murdered on August 22, 1942 in the Plötzensee prison.
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