Country Poland Powiat Kozienice Sołectwo Molendy Local time Wednesday 10:49 PM | Voivodeship Masovian Gmina Garbatka-Letnisko Established 18th century Population 225 (2003) | |
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Molendy [mɔˈlɛndɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Garbatka-Letnisko, within Kozienice County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
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Map of Molendy, Poland
It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Garbatka-Letnisko, 9 km (6 mi) south of Kozienice, and 89 km (55 mi) south-east of Warsaw.History
Village was founded at the end of the 18th century with a combination of rural Krępce and Wola Józefowska.
On April 7, 1944 BCH and AK troops under the command of "Thomas" and "Gryf, in a village surrounded by prevailing German forces, began fierce battle to exit the lap. It was the biggest partisan battle in the whole circumference in Kozienice County during World War II. On July 22, 1944 the Nazis murdered 10 men in the village.
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