Gorzyczki g is a village in Gmina Gorzyce

Gmina Gorzyce, Silesian Voivodeship

Gmina Gorzyce is a rural gmina in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, on the Czech border. Its seat is the village of Gorzyce, which lies approximately south-west of Wodzisław Śląski and south-west of the regional capital Katowice.The gmina covers an area of , and as of...

, Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia...

, Poland. It has a population of 1,593 and lies near the border with the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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It was the location of the Polenlager 169, a Nazi concentration camp of Polenlager type, i.e., primarily for Poles

Poles

thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...

. It held the deported Poles who didn't sign a volkslist. It was operated on the base of the "Fryderyk" coal mine facilities in 1942–1945 in Kolonia Fryderyk

Kolonia Fryderyk

Kolonia Fryderyk is a village in Gmina Gorzyce, Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 1,105 . It lies approximately north-east of Gorzyce, south-west of Wodzisław Śląski, and south-west of the regional capital Katowice....

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External links

Information about village at Gmina Gorzyce website