Serock | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Świecie |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Pruszcz |
Coordinates: | 53.3567°N 18.0825°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Elevation M: | 100 |
Population Total: | 2000 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | CSW |
Serock is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9km (06miles) west of Pruszcz, 250NaN0 west of Świecie, and 280NaN0 north of Bydgoszcz.
Before the Holocaust, the village had a Jewish community.[2]
In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, the village was a site of massacre of several dozens of Polish prisoners of war by the German troops (the).[3] [4] [5]