Mordarka | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Limanowa |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Limanowa |
Coordinates: | 49.6972°N 20.4631°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 2387 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | KLI |
Mordarka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Limanowa, within Limanowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3km (02miles) east of Limanowa and 560NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Kraków.[1]
In 1881, Mordarka had a population of 772.[2]
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on 7 September 1939, the Germans committed a massacre of ten people from Limanowa in Mordarka. The victims were nine Jews and a Polish mailman, who tried to persuade the Germans to release the nine arrested Jews.[3]