Luta | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lublin |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Włodawa |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Włodawa |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 51.4667°N 52°W |
Luta is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.[1] It lies approximately 11km (07miles) south-west of Włodawa and 680NaN0 east of the regional capital Lublin.
A small town situated a few miles outside Sobibor. The town was occupied by Germans in the spring of 1940.Luta was a forced labor camp for Jews that operated between 1940 and 1942 where hundreds of people were murdered.[2]