Rekówka

Rekówka
Rekówka
Village
	Bridge over the Iłżanka River in Rekówka
	Rekówka
	Coordinates: 51°15′N 21°38′E / 51.250°N 21.633°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Lipsko
Gmina	Ciepielów
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	WLI

Rekówka [rɛˈkufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ciepielów, within Lipsko County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of Lipsko and 116 km (72 mi) south of Warsaw.

History

Rekówka was a private village, administratively located in the Radom County in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland,^[2]

During the German occupation (World War II), on December 6, 1942, German Gendarmerie murdered ten Poles from Rekówka who were suspected of hiding the Jewish refuges. The victims were two men, two women and six children.^[3]

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz.1, Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1993. p. 3.
^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. pp. 90–91.

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