Kietlin | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Radomsko |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Radomsko |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 51.0892°N 19.5044°W |
Registration Plate: | ERA |
Blank Name Sec2: | National road |
Kietlin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radomsko, within Radomsko County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north-east of Radomsko and 780NaN0 south of the regional capital Łódź.
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany. In October 1943, the German gendarmerie committed a massacre of 11 people in Kietlin. The victims were three Poles (two men and one woman) and eight Jews (including children), whom they sheltered from the Holocaust.[2]