Nawra [ˈnavra] (German: Nefer)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, within Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[2] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Mszanowo (the gmina seat), 4 km (2 mi) north of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, and 72 km (45 mi) south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
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Coordinates: 53°27′N 19°34′E | |
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Voivodeship | Warmian-Masurian |
County | Nowe Miasto |
Gmina | Nowe Miasto Lubawskie |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vehicle registration | NNM |
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the local forest was the site of a massacre of over 150 Poles from the nearby town of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie and other nearby villages, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3]
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Present-day Poland |
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Pre-war Polish Volhynia (Wołyń Voivodeship, present-day Ukraine) | |
Pre-war Polish Eastern Galicia (Stanisławów Voivodeship, Tarnopol Voivodeship and the bulk of Lwów Voivodeship, present-day Ukraine) |
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Polish self-defence centres in Volhynia |
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Remainder of present-day Ukraine |
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Pre-war Polish Nowogródek and Wilno Voivodeships (present-day Belarus) |
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Remainder of present-day Belarus |
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Pre-war Polish Wilno Region (Wilno Voivodeship, present-day Lithuania) |
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Present-day Germany |
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