Wielany Explained

Wielany
Settlement Type:Village
Total Type: 
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Greater Poland
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Konin
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Kramsk
Coordinates:52.2667°N 45°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:right

Wielany is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kramsk, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 3km (02miles) east of Kramsk, 140NaN0 north-east of Konin, and 1060NaN0 east of the regional capital Poznań.

People from Wielany

- Józef Adamczyk (10 December 1879, Wielany/Konin – 7 August 1942); in September 1941 as a 62-year-old running a small farm in the Polish district of Konin near the Warta, part of the Polish territory annexed by Germany as Reichsgau Wartheland after the invasion of Poland, married with three children, he - along with other inhabitant of the village of Borki, Konin County - he helped a 26-year old Soviet prisoner of war Fiodor Azarov who escaped from a railway transport and hid in Konin County for about two months. When in November 1941, 26-year-old Azarov was picked up by a German gendarmerie patrol following a denunciation, German police then arrested several Polish citizens who had sheltered and fed him, including Józef Adamczyk, who was accused of giving the escapees shelter in his stable for four days and feeding him.Adamczyk was sentenced to death on May 26, 1942 by the 2nd Senate of the German “People’s Court” for “damaging the welfare of the Reich in connection with treasonous favoring of the enemy” and murdered on August 7, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
  2. https://www.gedenkstaette-ploetzensee.de/totenbuch/recherche/person/adamczyk-josef