Pieńki Borowe | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Łomża |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Jedwabne |
Coordinates: | 53.2833°N 36°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | BLM |
Pieńki Borowe is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jedwabne, within Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) west of Jedwabne, 170NaN0 north-east of Łomża, and 650NaN0 west of the regional capital Białystok.
Pieńki Borowe was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.
After the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the village was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941, and then by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. In 1942, the Germans massacred 60 Poles from the local nursing home in nearby Jeziorko (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2] Some of the victims have not been identified, because in 1944 the Germans burned the victims' bodies in attempt to cover up the crime.[2]