Nowa Tuchola
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Nowa Tuchola ' is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tuchola
Gmina Tuchola
Gmina Tuchola is an urban-rural gmina in Tuchola County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Tuchola, which lies approximately north of Bydgoszcz....

, within Tuchola County
Tuchola County
Tuchola County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Tuchola, which...

, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
-Transportation:Transportation infrastructure is of critical importance to the voivodeship's economy. Kuyavia-Pomerania is a major node point in the Polish transportation system. Railway lines from the South and East pass through Bydgoszcz in order to reach the major ports on the Baltic Sea...

, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Tuchola
Tuchola
Tuchola is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. The Pomeranian town, which had a population of 13,976 as of 2004, is located close to the Tuchola Forests about 7t0 km north of Bydgoszcz, and is the seat of Tuchola County...

 and 53 km (33 mi) north of Bydgoszcz.

The village has a population of 110.

Massacre during Second World War

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, members of German minority from Selbstschutz
Selbstschutz
Selbstschutz stands for two organisations:# A name used by a number of paramilitary organisations created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe# A name for self-defence measures and units in ethnic German, Austrian, and Swiss civil defence....

on 30 September murdered 48 people in the village, including 2 Poles and 46 Jews. The vicitms were collected also from neighbouring villages. Among the Germans following names were identified: Bratsch Helmut, Briske Hans, Walter Klos, Merten-Feddler Kurt, Muller Willy.
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