Miedzeszyn is a neighbourhood of Wawer, a district of Warsaw, Poland.[1] Until 1951, it was a separate village.[2]

Miedzeszyn
Neighbourhood
Lawinowa Street in Miedzeszyn.
Administrative division of Wawer, including Miedzeszyn.
Coordinates: 52°10′12″N 21°11′40″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Warsaw
District	Wawer
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)	+48 22
Car plates	WT

Administrative division and borders

The neighbourhood is divided into seven parts: Nowy Miedzeszyn, Miedzeszyn Wieś, Elżbietówek, Julianów, Świerczyna, and Zagódź. Its west border is based on the Vistula river, and the east border, on the forests on the hills.[1]

History

The village of Miedzeszyn, at the time known as Miedziessin excited as far as 1580, when it was located in Warsaw County, Warsaw Land. Masovian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[3] In 1926, the Włodzimierz Medem Sanatorium for children with tuberculosis, was opened in the village, by General Jewish Labour Bund and CISZO, and operated until 1942.[4] During the Nazi Germany Occupation of Poland in World War II, there was a ghetto for Jewish population, that operated there until 20 August 1942, when it was liquidated.[5] The village was incorporated into the city of Warsaw on 5 May 1951.[2]

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