Biała Niżna

Biała Niżna
Village
Biała Niżna
Coordinates: 49°38′N 20°59′E / 49.633°N 20.983°E / 49.633; 20.983
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lesser Poland
County Nowy Sącz County
Gmina Gmina Grybów
Population 2,200

Biała Niżna [ˈbʲawa ˈɲiʐna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grybów, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of Grybów, 21 km (13 mi) east of Nowy Sącz, and 89 km (55 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.[1]

The village has a population of 2,200.

History

The nearest ghetto lay about 3 km from Biala Nizna, in Grybow. It was created in 1940. The Nazis gathered about 2.500 Jews there from Krużlowa Niżna, Krużlowa Wyżna, Stara Wies, Siołkow, Mszalnica, Kąclowa, Biała Wyżna, Ptaszkow but also from Lodz and its surroundings. In August 1942, the ghetto was liquidated. Some of the ghetto inmates were transported to the ghetto in Nowy Sacz and the rest of them, approximately 360 men, women and children, were executed in Biala Nizna. That’s how this small village in southern Poland became one of the largest sites of martyrdom. According to Stanislaw R., the witness of the shooting, among 360 Jews killed in Biala Nizna, 60 were children.[2]

References


Coordinates: 49°38′N 20°59′E / 49.633°N 20.983°E / 49.633; 20.983


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