Skierniewice (Polish pronunciation: [skʲɛrɲɛˈvʲit͡sɛ]) is a city in central Poland with 47,031 inhabitants (2021),[1] situated in the Łódź Voivodeship.

Skierniewice was located on a trade route connecting major Polish cities Toruń and Lwów.

[2] Local merchants also participated in trade with Gdańsk, Lesser Poland and Podolia, as well as German states.

[3] Captured by the Wehrmacht on September 10, 1939,[3] the next day German troops carried out an execution of 60 Poles in the town (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).

[2] Resistance activities included sabotage actions, secret Polish education and the assassination of a German V-2 rocket expert.

[5] In May 1944, the Stalag 319 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs of various nationalities was relocated from Chełm to Skierniewice, and then eventually dissolved in August 1944.