Mordarka

Mordarka [mɔrˈdarka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Limanowa, within Limanowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of Limanowa and 56 km (35 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

[2] During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on 7 September 1939, the Germans committed a massacre of ten people from Limanowa in Mordarka.

The victims were nine Jews and a Polish mailman, who tried to persuade the Germans to release the nine arrested Jews.

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