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Nawra, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Nawra is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, within Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 3 km north-west of Mszanowo (the gmina seat), 4 km north of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, and 72 km south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
History
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the local forest was the site of a massacre of over 150 Poles from the nearby town of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie and other nearby villages, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.
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