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Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city.
Reichsmarine rally in German-occupied Poznań in April 1941. 1941 The German labor office in Poznań demanded that children as young as 12 register for work, but it is known that even ten-year-old children were forced to work. [48] Spring: Komitet Niesienia Pomocy joined the Union of Armed Struggle. [33]
Poznań (Polish: [ˈpɔznaj̃] or ⓘ) [a] is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. [7] The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (Jarmark Świętojański), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect.
Poznań was the seat the German Central Bureau for Resettlement (UWZ, Umwandererzentralstelle), a special German institution established in November 1939 to coordinate the expulsion of Poles from occupied Polish territories. [25] Poznań's Jewish population, which had numbered 2,000 in 1939, [26] was largely murdered in the Holocaust.
Poznań Old Town is the centermost neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the once walled medieval city of Poznań. It is called Stare Miasto in Polish, although that name may also refer to the wider administrative district of Stare Miasto, which extends to most of the city centre and northern parts of the city.
In the strict meaning, it covers an area of about 33,000 square kilometres (13,000 sq mi), and has a population of 3.5 million. In the wider sense, it has almost 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 sq mi), and 7 million inhabitants. The region's main metropolis is Poznań, near the centre of the region, on the Warta.
Poznań County (Polish: powiat poznański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
The city of Poznań, the capital of Greater Poland Voivodeship, offers a variety of tourist attractions, including historical sights, monuments, museums, and theatres.