| Mikaszówka | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Augustów |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Płaska |
| Coordinates: | 53.8906°N 23.3956°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 90 |
| Registration Plate: | BAU |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Mikaszówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płaska, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.[1] It lies approximately 10km (10miles) east of Płaska, 290NaN0 east of Augustów, and 880NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
The Mikaszówka Lock of the Augustów Canal is located in Mikaszówka.
In 1827, Mikaszówka had a population of 95, and in the late 19th century it had a population of 128.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in April 1940, the Germans arrested Polish priests Stanisław Piotr Konstantynowicz and in the village, and then imprisoned them in Suwałki and eventually deported them to concentration camps.[3] [4] Maciątek died of exhaustion in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in June 1940,[4] while Konstantynowicz was murdered in the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre in August 1942 (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]