Valley of Death
Valley of Death in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kościół Matki Bożej Królowej Męczenników w Bydgoszczy and Góra Szybowników.
Kościół Matki Bożej Królowej Męczenników w Bydgoszczy
Church
Photo: Pit1233, Public domain.
Kościół Matki Bożej Królowej Męczenników w Bydgoszczy is a church, which is situated 550 metres southwest of Valley of Death.
Bydgoszcz Fordon
Railway station
Photo: Przemek Jahr, Public domain.
Bydgoszcz Fordon is a railway station, which is situated 2 km southeast of Valley of Death.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Czarnówczyn and Mała Kępa.
Czarnówczyn
Village
Czarnówczyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Osielsko, within Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Czarnówczyn is situated 3½ km west of Valley of Death.
Mała Kępa
Village
Photo: Kazimierz Mendlik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mała Kępa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska, within Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Mała Kępa is situated 4 km south of Valley of Death.
Strzyżawa
Village
Photo: Margoz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Strzyżawa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska, within Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Strzyżawa is situated 4 km southeast of Valley of Death.
Valley of Death
- Type: Park
- Description: valley
- Categories: valley, execution site, and recreation area
- Location: Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
53.15821° or 53° 9′ 30″ northLongitude
18.13867° or 18° 8′ 19″ eastOpen location code
9F5W545Q+7FOpenStreetMap ID
way 406009579OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q554408
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Valley of Death” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “比得哥什死亡谷”
- French: “vallée de la mort”
- French: “Vallée de la mort”
- German: “Dolina Smierci”
- German: “Dolina Śmierci”
- German: “Tal des Todes”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Θανάτου (Μπίντγκοστς)”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Θανάτου”
- Italian: “Dolina Śmierci”
- Italian: “Valle della Morte di Bydgoszcz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dolina Śmierci”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dødsdalen i Polen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dolina Smierci”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dolina Śmierci”
- Norwegian: “Dolina Śmierci”
- Persian: “دره مرگ”
- Polish: “Dolina Śmierci”
- Spanish: “Valle de la Muerte”
- Swedish: “Dolina Śmierci”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Chết chóc (Bydgoszcz)”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Chết chóc”
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