Przyłęk, Greater Poland Voivodeship


Przyłęk is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Tomyśl, within Nowy Tomyśl County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Nowy Tomyśl and west of the regional capital Poznań.
The village has a population of 546.

World War II history

From 1940 to 1943, Przyłęk was the location of a Nazi German forced labour camp called Smolarnia for Jews and Poles enslaved in the construction of military highway from Berlin to Poznań passing through on the outskirts of the village :pl:Obóz pracy w Przyłęku|. Many of the 3,500 prisoners died there from disease, hunger and physical exhaustion. A monument to their memory was erected in 1979.