Jaworze Dolne

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Jaworze Dolne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pilzno, within Dębica County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 6 km south-east of Pilzno, 13 km south-west of Dębica, and 48 km west of the regional capital Rzeszów.

History

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany. On February 4, 1943, German troops and Gestapo perpetrated a massacre of 11 people in Jaworze Dolne. The victims were five Poles and six Jews, whom they sheltered from the Holocaust.

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