View source for Palmiry

{{Infobox settlement
| name = Palmiry
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type = &nbsp;
| image_skyline = Palmiry Cemetery.JPG
| image_caption = Cemetery in Palmiry
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Masovian Voivodeship|Masovian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Nowy Dwór County, Masovian Voivodeship|Nowy Dwór]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Czosnów|Czosnów]]
| coordinates = {{coord|52|22|N|20|47|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 220
| website =
}}
[[File:Palmiry kusocinski.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Tomb of [[Janusz Kusociński]]]]
'''Palmiry''' ({{IPAc-pl|p|a|l|'|m|i|r|y}}) is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Czosnów]], within [[Nowy Dwór County, Masovian Voivodeship|Nowy Dwór County]], [[Masovian Voivodeship]], in east-central Poland.<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) &ndash; TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish}}</ref> It is located at the edge of the [[Kampinos Forest]], approximately {{convert|4|km|mi|0}} south-east of [[Czosnów]], {{convert|11|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of [[Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki]], and {{convert|23|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north-west of [[Warsaw]]. In 2000 the village had an approximate population of 220.
==Mass executions during German occupation of Poland==
{{Further|Palmiry massacre}}
During [[World War II]], between 1939 and 1943, the village and the surrounding forest were one of the sites of the Nazi German mass executions of Jews,<ref name="Gilbert">{{cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Martin|authorlink=Martin Gilbert|title=The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wb1mg5QWSLEC&dq=%22Palmiry%22+holocaust&pg=PA112|year=1987|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]]|isbn=978-0-8050-0348-2|page=112}}</ref> [[Polish intelligentsia]], politicians and athletes, killed during the [[German AB-Aktion in Poland]]. Most of the victims were first arrested and tortured in the [[Pawiak]] prison in [[Warsaw]], then transferred to the execution site. In total, about 1,700 Poles were murdered there in secret executions between December 7, 1939 and July 17, 1941.
In 1946, the bodies were exhumed and reburied in a new cemetery, situated approximately 5 kilometres from the village itself. The reburial site has been a Polish national mausoleum since 1948.
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Palmiry}}
* [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/palmiry/ Jewish Community in Palmiry] on Virtual Shtetl
{{Gmina Czosnów}}
[[Category:Villages in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki County]]