| Morzewo | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Coordinates: | 53.0833°N 16.8928°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Piła |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Kaczory |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +01:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +02:00 |
| Population Total: | 620 |
| Registration Plate: | PP |
Morzewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaczory, within Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 2km (01miles) south of Kaczory, 130NaN0 south-east of Piła, and 760NaN0 north of the regional capital Poznań.
Morzewo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on November 7, 1939, the German police carried out a massacre of 41 Poles in the village as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] Among the victims were teachers, school principals, priests, policemen, local officials including mayor of the nearby town of Chodzież, merchants, craftsmen, farmers and former insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising from various nearby towns and villages.[3] In 1943, the Germans burned the bodies of the victims in attempt to cover up the crime.[3] In November 1940, several Polish families were expelled from Morzewo to the General Government, and some were deported to forced labour to Germany, while their farms were handed over to German colonists in accordance to the Lebensraum policy.[4]
The main sights of Morzewo are the historic church of the Transfiguration and the memorial at the site of the 1939 massacre.