Parchatka

Parchatka [parˈxatka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kazimierz Dolny, within Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Kazimierz Dolny, 6 km (4 mi) south of Puławy, and 43 km (27 mi) west of the regional capital Lublin.

[2] Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1944.

On 18 November 1942, the ethnic Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police committed a massacre of 28 Poles, and arrested further 25 Poles, who were first sent to the German prison at the Lublin Castle and then the Auschwitz concentration camp, with only five surviving and returning after the war.

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Parchatka, after 1819