Kitów | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lublin |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Zamość |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Sułów |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.8°N 78°W |
Kitów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sułów, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) north of Sułów, 250NaN0 west of Zamość, and 560NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
See main article: Kitów massacre. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, on December 11, 1942, a minimum of 164 inhabitants of Kitów, including numerous women and children, were massacred by the German punitive expedition.[2]