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Marciszów

Marciszów is a village in Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district ( gmina) called Gmina Marciszów. It lies approximately north-west of Kamienna Góra and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany. At the end of World War II (1944 - 45) in textile factory Kramsta-Methner Jewish women from various concentration camps (Terezin, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen etc.) were imprisoned and used for forced labor. After World War II the region was placed under Polish administration and ethnically cleansed according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement. The native German populace was expelled and replaced with Poles.