Albertów | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kłobuck |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Lipie |
Coordinates: | 51.0264°N 18.8172°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 369 |
Registration Plate: | SKL |
Albertów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipie, within Kłobuck County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 2km (01miles) north-east of Lipie, 150NaN0 north-west of Kłobuck, and 880NaN0 north of the regional capital Katowice.
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 3, 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 159 Poles in the village.[2] The victims were inhabitants of Albertów and its surroundings (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2]