Dłużniów

Dłużniów
Village

Exaltation of the Holy Cross church
Dłużniów
Coordinates: 50°28′8″N 24°0′45″E / 50.46889°N 24.01250°E / 50.46889; 24.01250
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lublin
County Hrubieszów
Gmina Dołhobyczów
Population 40

Dłużniów [ˈdwuʐɲuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dołhobyczów, within Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.[1] It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) south of Dołhobyczów, 40 km (25 mi) south of Hrubieszów, and 134 km (83 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin.

The village has a population of 40.

German occupation

Before the war, Maks Glazermann, a Jewish engineer from Lwów owned an estate in Dłużniów. During the German occupation he was initially left to run the property. In the summer of 1941, Julek (Joel/Jakób) Brandt, a leader of the Zionist youth movement Betar from Chorzów arranged for several hundred members of the Betar youth movement in the Warsaw Ghetto to work on farms and estates in the area, including Glazermann's in Dłużniów. Among them was Hanka Tauber, a young woman from Warsaw. Her account of what went on in Dłużniów was recorded in the diary of Abraham Lewin. Tauber returned to Warsaw, but most of the Betar youth who remained were killed in the spring of 1942.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ Libionka, Dariusz and Laurence Weinbaum, A New Look at the Betar 'Idyll' in Hrubieszów, Yad Vashem Studies, volume XXXVII (2009)


Coordinates: 50°28′8″N 24°0′45″E / 50.46889°N 24.01250°E / 50.46889; 24.01250


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