Krzywe | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Suwałki |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Suwałki |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 54.0842°N 23.0067°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | BSU |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Krzywe is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Suwałki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) east of Suwałki and 1080NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
The seat of the Wigry National Park is located in Krzywe.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans murdered, a Polish parish priest from Bakałarzewo, in the forest near the village as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2] [3] According to some sources, the Germans gouged out his eyes and torn his tongue out before the execution.[3]