Hucisko, Przysucha County

Village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
51°15′08″N 20°36′25″E / 51.25222°N 20.60694°E / 51.25222; 20.60694Country PolandVoivodeshipMasovianCountyPrzysuchaGminaPrzysucha

Hucisko [xuˈt͡ɕiskɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przysucha, within Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1]

In 1940 it was the site of the battle between the Polish partisans of the Detached Unit of the Polish Army and German forces, which ended in Polish victory. Many civilians from the region were subject to the German repressions subsequently.[2]: 180 [3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Kosztyła, Zygmunt (1987). Oddział Wydzielony Wojska Polskiego Majora "Hubala" (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawn. Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej. ISBN 83-11-07345-7. OCLC 18746181.
  3. ^ Brewing, Daniel (2022-06-10). In the Shadow of Auschwitz: German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939–1945. Berghahn Books. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-80073-090-8. The appearance of the armed group around Major Henryk Dobrzański in the forests of Radom district in the spring of 1940 marks the moment when the German occupying power was confronted for the first time with an organized partisan group.
  4. ^ Kochanski, Halik (2022). Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945. Liveright Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-324-09166-0.


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