What the records say
- When
- Sep 1939 – Jan 1940
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 5,000
- Coordinates
- 54.00° N, 18.59° E
- Description
- a series of mass executions carried out by the German occupiers in the Szpęgawski Forest near Starogard Gdański. It is estimated that between September 1939 and January 1940
Szpęgawsk Forest
1939–1940 Nazi mass murder
The Forest of Szpęgawsk is situated west of the village of Szpęgawsk in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
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