Piątek, Łódź Voivodeship

Infobox Settlement
name = Piątek
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Łódź
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Łęczyca
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Piątek
latd = 52
latm = 4
lats = 9
latNS = N
longd = 19
longm = 28
longs = 50
longEW = E
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population_total = 2130
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Piątek IPA-pl| [|'|p|j|o|n|t|e|k|] is a village in Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Piątek. It lies approximately convert|20|km|mi|0 east of Łęczyca and convert|32|km|mi|0|abbr=on north of the regional capital Łódź.

The village has a population of 2,130.

Massacre during Second World War

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, Wehrmacht soldiers on 13th September mass murdered 50 people of which 43 were Poles and 7 Jews. The victims were murdered without any reason given. After Germans entered the village males were forcefully taken out of homes and forced to repair a bridge, after the work was completed the German soldiers shot all of them. Another massacre took place later in which 50 Jews were executed [Szymon Datner "55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce" page 373-375] .

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