Pyskowice

Pyskowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, close to Katowice. Borders at the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union city with the populace of 2 millions. Located inside the Silesian Highlands. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship considering the fact that its formation in 1999 formerly it turned into in Katowice Voivodeship. Pyskowice is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation Katowice urban area and inside a extra Silesian metropolitan vicinity populated by means of approximately 5,294,000 human beings.

The population of the metropolis is 19,104. During the Second World War Pyskowice, then known as Peiskretcham, become one of the many web sites where Canadian and British prisoners of battle, nominally connected to Stalag VIIIBC 344 Lamsdorf needed to work for his or her German captors.

There were more than 600 such operating parties belonging to Stlag VIIIBC 344 in this vicinity. In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and superior into Germany, the prisoners based in Pyskowice had been marched westward inside the so referred to as Long March or Death March. Some died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. Eventually the survivors were liberated by American troops in April or May 1945.