Warta, Poland
Encyclopedia
Warta ' is a town in Sieradz County
, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
, with 3,392 inhabitants (2004). It is situated on the Warta River
. The town had a number of Jewish inhabitants who were sent to the Ghettos and eventually to the concentration camps during World War II
.
Sieradz County
Sieradz County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Łódź Voivodeship, 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 largest town is Sieradz, which lies west of the...
, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, with 3,392 inhabitants (2004). It is situated on the Warta River
Warta River
The Warta is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately it is the country's third longest river. The Warta has a basin area of 54,529 square kilometers...
. The town had a number of Jewish inhabitants who were sent to the Ghettos and eventually to the concentration camps during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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