Gruszki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Hajnówka |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Narewka |
Coordinates: | 52.8278°N 23.7994°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Gruszki is a settlement, part of the village of Guszczewina,[1] in the administrative district of Gmina Narewka, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.[2] It lies approximately 3km (02miles) east of Narewka, 190NaN0 north-east of Hajnówka, and 540NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Białystok.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the German Police Battalion 322 expelled the inhabitants, and then plundered and destroyed the settlement (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3] After the war the village was rebuilt.
In Gruszki there is a memorial to Danuta Siedzikówna, member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and the anti-communist resistance movement, national heroine of Poland.[4] There is also a monument commemorating the Millennium of Poland.