Sprowa

Sprowa [ˈsprɔva] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupia, within Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.

[1] Within the Kingdom of Poland, Sprowa was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Odrowąż and Szczepanowski families.

During the January Uprising, on December 4, 1863, a battle was fought at Sprowa between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.

During the German occupation (World War II), a local Polish farmer, Jan Molenda, hid 23 Jews from Szczekociny, Raszków, Łódź, Dąbrowica and Słupia on his farm in 1942–1943, including three families with children (see Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust).

[3] The Germans discovered the hideout, murdered 18 captured Jews on the spot, and arrested Molenda, who then escaped from prison in Jędrzejów, and hid from the Germans until the end of the occupation.