Ruszów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Ruszów [ˈruʂuf] (Upper Sorbian: Ružow) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Węgliniec, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

[1] Ruszów is within the historic Upper Lusatia, homeland of Lusatian Sorbs.

During World War II the Germans established and operated a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the village, whose prisoners were Jews.

[2] In the final stages of World War II, a temporary hospital of the Second Polish Army was located in the village.

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