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Darzlubska Wilderness


Puszcza Darżlubska (pronounced [puʂ'tʂa darʐlubska]) or Lasy Piaśnickie (English: Darżlubska Wilderness or Darżlubie / Piaśnica Forest) located in northernmost part of Poland, is a Polish forests complex on the Baltic Sea, within the geographical region of Pobrzeże Kaszubskie; on the south-side bordering the Tricity Landscape Park (Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy) from which it is separated by the Reda river. Inside Darżlubie Forest there are two nature reserves (Polish protected areas). The wilderness is also the source of two rivers: Piaśnica and Gizdepka. The name of Puszcza Darżlubska comes from the nearby village of Darżlubie in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, north of Gdańsk.

Puszcza Darżlubska is a place of Polish and Jewish martyrology; the second largest site of mass killings of Polish civilians in Pomerania (after Stutthof) during World War II. The waves of Nazi German executions, known as the Mass murders in Piaśnica, of about 12,000–16,000 hostages (mostly intelligentsia), were committed between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 near the town of Wielka Piaśnica.


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