Guszczewina


Guszczewina is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narewka, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately east of Narewka, north-east of Hajnówka, and south-east of the regional capital Białystok.
The village has a population of 61.
The settlement Gruszki is considered part of the village.
During the German occupation of Poland, the German Police Battalion 322 expelled the entire population, and then plundered and destroyed the village. After the war the village was rebuilt.
Danuta Siedzikówna, member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and the anti-communist resistance movement, national heroine of Poland, was born in the village. There is a memorial to Siedzikówna in Gruszki near the forestry.