Krzywe, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Krzywe [ˈkʂɨvɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Suwałki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.

The seat of the Wigry National Park is located in Krzywe.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans murdered Antoni Romuald Jałbrzykowski [pl], a Polish parish priest from Bakałarzewo, in the forest near the village as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

[2][3] According to some sources, the Germans gouged out his eyes and torn his tongue out before the execution.

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