Skrzynice-Kolonia

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Skrzynice-Kolonia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jabłonna, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 4 km north-east of Jabłonna and 16 km south of the regional capital Lublin.

History

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany. In October 1943, the German police executed two people in Skrzynice-Kolonia. The victims were a 28-year-old Polish man and a Jew whom he had sheltered from the Holocaust.

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