Szarwark | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Dąbrowa |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Dąbrowa Tarnowska |
Coordinates: | 50.1333°N 25°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Szarwark is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Tarnowska, within Dąbrowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 8km (05miles) south-east of Dąbrowa Tarnowska and 810NaN0 east of the regional capital Kraków.[1]
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. In June 1943, the German gendarmerie and Gestapo carried out a massacre of six local Poles, including two children aged 10 and 12, as punishment for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust.[2]