| Biała Niżna | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Nowy Sącz |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Grybów |
| Coordinates: | 49.6333°N 79°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Population Total: | 2200 |
Biała Niżna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grybów, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3km (02miles) east of Grybów, 210NaN0 east of Nowy Sącz, and 890NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Kraków.[1]
The nearest ghetto lay about 3 km from Biala Biała Niżna, in Grybów. It was created in 1940. The Nazis gathered about 2.500 Jews there from Krużlowa Niżna, Krużlowa Wyżna, Stara Wieś, Siołków, Mszalnica, Kąclowa, Biała Wyżna, Ptaszków but also from Lodz and its surroundings. In August 1942, the ghetto was liquidated. Some of the ghetto inmates were transported to the ghetto in Nowy Sącz and the rest of them, approximately 360 men, women and children, were executed in Biała Niżna. That's how this small village in southern Poland became one of the largest sites of martyrdom. According to Stanisław R., the witness of the shooting, among 360 Jews killed in Biała Niżna, 60 were children.[2]