Borów, Kraśnik County

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Borów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Annopol, within Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10 km south of Annopol, 25 km south-west of Kraśnik, and 68 km south-west of the regional capital Lublin.

History

During the German occupation (World War II), on 2 February 1944, the village was pacified by the occupiers. Some 300 Polish inhabitants were massacred in reprisal for their support for the Polish resistance movement. There is a memorial in the village.

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