Walenczyzna | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Wieluń |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Skomlin |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 51.1853°N 18.4047°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | EWI |
Walenczyzna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skomlin, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 2km (01miles) north-east of Skomlin, 130NaN0 west of Wieluń, and 1000NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France, and others were deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[2] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]