Stępina

Stępina
Village
Stępina
Coordinates: 49°53′N 21°34′E / 49.883°N 21.567°E / 49.883; 21.567
Country Poland Poland
Voivodeship Subcarpathian
County Strzyżów
Gmina Frysztak
Population (approx.) 920

Stępina [stɛmˈpʲina] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Frysztak, within Strzyżów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-west of Frysztak, 16 km (10 mi) west of Strzyżów, and 36 km (22 mi) south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.

The village has an approximate population of 920.

World War II

"Hitler's Bunker" built in 1940-1941

Stępina is the location of the so-called Hitler's Bunker built in 1940-1941, and supplied with slave-labor from the Szebnie concentration camp nearby.[2] Over the course of the Szebnie camp's operation some 10 thousand people perished there, including Soviet prisoners of war, Polish Jews and non-Jewish Poles as well as Ukrainians and Romani people. The remains of the camp were entered by the Soviets on 8 September 1944.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ Ronald Berger (12 July 2010). "Surviving the Concentration Camps" (Google Book). Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective. Taylor & Francis. pp. 91–92. ISBN 0203848519. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  3. ↑ Jacek Bracik, Józef Twaróg (2003). "Obóz w Szebniach (Camp in Szebnie)" (in Polish). Region Jasielski, nr 3 (39). Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2013.


Coordinates: 49°53′N 21°34′E / 49.883°N 21.567°E / 49.883; 21.567

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