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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Torzeniec<br />
| settlement_type = Village<br />
| image_skyline = Torzeniec Pałac-front.JPG<br />
| image_caption = Torzeniec Palace<br />
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]<br />
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Greater Poland Voivodeship|Greater Poland]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Ostrzeszów County|Ostrzeszów]]<br />
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]<br />
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Doruchów|Doruchów]]<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|51|24|N|18|8|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}<br />
| pushpin_map = Poland<br />
| pushpin_label_position = right<br />
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<br />
| utc_offset = +1<br />
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]<br />
| utc_offset_DST = +2<br />
| elevation_m = <br />
| population_total = <br />
| registration_plate = POT<br />
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]s<br />
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW450-PL.svg|32px]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Torzeniec''' {{IPAc-pl|t|o|'|ż|e|ń|e|c}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Doruchów]], within [[Ostrzeszów County]], [[Greater Poland Voivodeship]], in south-central Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|4|km|mi|0}} south-east of [[Doruchów]], {{convert|10|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of [[Ostrzeszów]], and {{convert|139|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of the regional capital [[Poznań]].<br />
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==History==<br />
According to the [[1921 Polish census|1921 census]], the village had a population of 629, entirely [[Polish people|Polish]] by nationality, 98.7% [[Roman Catholic]] and 1.3% [[Lutheran]] by confession.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej|volume=X|year=1926|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=32}}</ref><br />
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During the German [[invasion of Poland]] at the start of [[World War II]] in September 1939, while fighting at night, German troops mistakenly fired on each other and then blamed the local Polish inhabitants.<ref name=mw>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=93}}</ref> In "retaliation," German soldiers set fire to the village, shot at fleeing residents, and then organized a nighttime manhunt.<ref name=mw/> Additionally, they executed 18 captured Polish men the next morning (the [[Torzeniec massacre]], see also ''[[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation]]'').<ref name=mw/><br />
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[[Category:Villages in Ostrzeszów County]]<br />
[[Category:Sites of World War II massacres of Poles]]<br />
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