Pławno, Łódź Voivodeship
Pławno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gidle, within Radomsko County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. The village has a population of 1,200. It lies approximately north of Gidle, south of Radomsko, and south of the regional capital Łódź. World War II On 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, German troops carried out a massacre of Polish inhabitants of the village (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). Afterwards, the village was under German occupation until 1945. The fate of the Jews of Pławno was sealed in 1942. Mayoral orders of the German occupiers are quoted below. 22 January 1942 It is impossible to create a residential quarter for Jews (Ghetto) within the local district because there are 460 Jews in the district of Pławno, and the Pławno borough itself is too small to lodge that amount in a body. Moreover, the farmers residing here could not be removed from their dwellings and farm buildings. It would only be practicable to resettle the Jews from here to Ghetto in Radomsko. Mayor of Pławno district. Signed Karl Rusche [stamp] In German: Bürgermeister der Gem. Pławno gez. Karl Rusche (stamp) 19