Gorzuchowo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Gorzuchowo [ɡɔʐuˈxɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stolno, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

It is located in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania.

On September 2, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, the German Luftwaffe bombed the local train station, killing 39 people, including railway workers and civilians (men, women and children).

[2] In 1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to transit camps in the region, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.

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Mass grave of Poles killed in the German bombing of Gorzuchowo in 1939