Tworki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Coordinates: | 52.0436°N 22.2892°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Siedlce |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wiśniew |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | WSI |
Tworki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiśniew, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1]
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1944. In January 1944, the German gendarmerie carried out a massacre of nine people in Tworki. The victims were 38-year-old Zofia Krasuska, her 5-year-old son Stanisław Krasuski, and seven Jews, whom she sheltered from the Holocaust.[2]