| Szonów | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Opole |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Prudnik |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Głogówek |
| Coordinates: | 50.3028°N 17.8422°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Szonów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głogówek, within Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) south of Głogówek, 200NaN0 east of Prudnik, and 410NaN0 south of the regional capital Opole. Historically located in Upper Silesia, in the Prudnik Land.
Szonów/Schönau was, for many prisoners of war, a stopping place on 'The Long March' during the final months of the Second World War in Europe. About 30,000 Allied PoWs were force-marched westward across Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany in appalling winter conditions, lasting about four months from January to April 1945.[2]