Rzędziwojowice

Rzędziwojowice
Village
Rzędziwojowice
Coordinates: PL 50°40′34″N 17°38′17″E / 50.67611°N 17.63806°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Opole Voivodeship
County	Opole County
Gmina	Niemodlin

Rzędziwojowice pronounced [ʐɛnd͡ʑivɔjɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niemodlin, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.^[1]

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II), and the location of slave labour camp called Reichsautobahnlager Geppersdorf for Poles and Jews, captured after the invasion of Poland.

While many acts of brutality occurred, mortality at Geppersdorf was relatively low. Only one of the SA guards was apprehended after the war and was sentenced to death before a Polish court because of atrocities he had committed at Geppersdorf and Auschwitz. As opposed to Gross Sarne and some other RAB camps, Geppersdorf was closed in June, 1945, instead of being transformed into a Schmelt camp. The inmates were dispersed to several Schmelt camps, including Blechhammer (Blachownia Śląska) and Gross Sarne (Sarny Wielkie).^[2]

Village name Geppersdorf is also the German name for an unrelated Czech village of Linhartovy (pl) (de) to the south of Poland.

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Hermann F. Weiss. "Reichsautobahnlager Geppersdorf (Upper Silesia), 1940–1942". edited by Silesian Historical Quarterly Sobótka of the Polish Historical Society Branch in Wrocław. Source: Reichsautobahnlager Geppersdorf (Rzędziwojowice k. Niemodlina), 1940-1942; [first published:] Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka, 2012. ISSN 0037-7511.

External links

• Jewish Community in Rzędziwojowice on Virtual Shtetl

Coordinates: 50°40′34″N 17°38′17″E / 50.67611°N 17.63806°E