Boguszewo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Boguszewo.

Boguszewo [bɔɡuˈʂɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gruta, within Grudziądz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Gruta, 18 km (11 mi) east of Grudziądz, and 52 km (32 mi) north-east of Toruń. It is located in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania.

Boguszewo
Village
Train station in Boguszewo
Boguszewo
Coordinates: 53°26′N 19°1′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Kuyavian-Pomeranian
County	Grudziądz
Gmina	Gruta
Population	360
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	CGR

History

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Boguszewo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[2] In 1940, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to a transit camp in Toruń and then deported either to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland or to forced labour in Germany, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3]

Transport

There is a train station in the village.

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. The Pomeranian Crime 1939. Warsaw: IPN. 2018. p. 39.
3. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 75. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.