| Giełczyn | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Łomża |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Łomża |
| Coordinates: | 53.1167°N 26°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Giełczyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łomża, within Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6km (04miles) south of Łomża and 740NaN0 west of the regional capital Białystok.
The village is located at the north-eastern edge of a large forest complex known as the Red Wood (Czerwony Bór), a place of Polish and Jewish martyrology during World War II.
Between 1941 and 1944, during Nazi German occupation of Poland, German commandos carried out mass killings of Poles and the Polish Jews trucked in from the Łomża Ghetto among other places, executed into pits on the outskirts of the Giełczyn forest.[2]