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Nowa Wieś, Wieluń County
Nowa Wieś [ˈnɔva ˈvjɛɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Osjaków, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Osjaków, 15 km (9 mi) north-east of Wieluń, and 74 km (46 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.[1] HistoryThe territory became a part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Nowa Wieś was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Stawski and Starzeński families,[2] administratively located in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. In 1827, it had a population of 120.[2] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France, and others were deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[3] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] References
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