Hołdunów

Hołdunów (German: Anhalt) is a district of Lędziny, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

[1] The settlement was established in 1770 by about 300 Calvinists fleeing religious persecution from the village of Kozy in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth across the border to Upper Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia.

The reason for this is not clear: Polish sources claim that the village was burned after a battle with a pro-German militia organized there, while German sources deny that such a militia existed and claim that the inhabitants did not resist the Polish attackers.

The burning of Hołdunów was publicized in the German media as an example of the alleged barbarism of the Polish insurgents.

Shortly afterwards, Wojciech Korfanty, one of the uprising's leaders, came to Hołdunów, apologized for its destruction, and paid for its reconstruction.