| Grabin | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Opole Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Opole County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Niemodlin |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Coordinates: | 50.6°N 48°W |
| Population Total: | 645 |
Grabin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niemodlin, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) south-west of Niemodlin and 310NaN0 west of the regional capital Opole.
During that era, the name was spelled Grüben (Geeman), and its county was named “Falkenburg.” For the most part, citizens of German descent removed from Grüben/Grabin at the end of World War Two. According to reporter John Sack in his book An Eye For An Eye, a particularly macabre yet little known atrocity took place here when a number of German women residing in the village were forced by armed Poles to exhume rotting corpses buried in a mass grave by the SS. These women were forced into close contact with the bodies, and as Sack describes in graphic detail, were made to "kiss and make love" with the corpses, which were infected with typhus. The women were subsequently interned at the former Lamsdorf camp, where they were not able to shower, and 64 of them subsequently died.
The village had a population of 645 as of 2015.[2]