Sanniki, Masovian Voivodeship

Sanniki
Sanniki
Town
	Fryderyk Chopin Palace and Park, Sanniki
	Coat of arms
	Sanniki
	Coordinates: 52°20′2″N 19°51′57″E / 52.33389°N 19.86583°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Gostynin
Gmina	Sanniki
Population	2,000
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	WGS
Voivodeship roads

Sanniki [sanˈniki] is a town^[1] in Gostynin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sanniki.^[2] It lies approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) east of Gostynin and 79 km (49 mi) west of Warsaw.

The town has a population of 2,000.

History

Fryderyk Chopin, then 18, vacationed here in 1828.

Before World War II, the town had a Jewish community of 300 or so. During the German occupation of Poland, the Jews were forced to live in a small ghetto. In 1940, the German gendermerie and SS carried out expulsions of local Poles, who were sent to a transit camp in Kutno and then deported to forced labour in Germany.^[3] In 1941, the Jews were forced to demolish a local church so Germans could photograph it for their anti-semitic propaganda. In early 1942, the 250 Jews left in the ghetto were deported to the Chełmno extermination camp to be murdered. The number of Sanniki Jews who survived is unknown.^[4] From 1943 to 1945, the town was renamed by the German occupiers to Sannikau.

References

^ http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20170001427/O/D20171427.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 217. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
^ Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II 100–101. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.

External links

Jewish Community in Sanniki on Virtual Shtetl

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[1] ttp://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20170001427/O/D20171427.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[TERYT-2] "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.

[3] Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 217. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.

[4] Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II 100–101. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.

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v t e Gmina Sanniki
Town and seat	Sanniki
Villages	Aleksandrów Brzezia Brzeziny Czyżew Działy Krubin Lasek Lubików Lwówek Mocarzewo Nowy Barcik Osmolin Osmólsk Górny Sielce Staropol Stary Barcik Szkarada Wólka Niska Wólka Wysoka