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Klimontów, Sosnowiec

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District of the city of Sosnowiec, Poland

Klimontów
District of Sosnowiec
Wanda Malczewska Park
Klimontów
Coordinates: 50°16′33″N 19°11′41″E / 50.27583°N 19.19472°E / 50.27583; 19.19472
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
County/City	Sosnowiec
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	SO

Klimontów [kliˈmɔntuf] is a district of Sosnowiec in the Silesian VoivodeshipofPoland,^[1] located in the central part of the city.

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The Klimontów Coal Mine was built in 1908.

During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, in September 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of nine Poles (eight men and one woman) in Klimontów (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).^[4] The German occupiers also established and operated two forced labour subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in Klimontów.^[5]

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