| Kuźnica Żelichowska | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Czarnków-Trzcianka |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Krzyż Wielkopolski |
| Coordinates: | 52.9781°N 16.0817°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 64-763[1] |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Registration Plate: | PCT |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship road |
Kuźnica Żelichowska (pronounced as /pl/) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzyż Wielkopolski, within Czarnków-Trzcianka County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[2] It lies approximately 13km (08miles) north-east of Krzyż Wielkopolski, 340NaN0 west of Czarnków, and 860NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Poznań.
Kuźnica Żelichowska was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[3] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany, within which the Polish population was subjected to Germanisation policies. During the final stages of World War II, on January 28, 1945, the retreating Germans committed a massacre of six Italian generals (Giuseppe Andreoli, Emanuele Balbo Bertone, Ugo Ferrero, Carlo Spatocco, Alberto Trionfi, Alessandro Vaccaneo) during a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners of war.[4] After the German withdrawal, the massacred Italians were buried by local Poles.[5] The village returned to Poland.