Piece, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Piece [ˈpjɛt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaliska, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship,[1] in northern Poland.

[2] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of Kaliska, 23 km (14 mi) south-west of Starogard Gdański, and 60 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Piece was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

[3] The local priest was murdered by the Germans in October 1939, during the large massacres of Poles carried out in the Forest of Szpęgawsk (see: Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland).

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