Stare Babice


Stare Babice is a village in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Stare Babice. It lies approximately north-east of Ożarów Mazowiecki and west of Warsaw.
In terms of population, it is the largest village in the district, with a population of 2,056 people as of 31 December 2010.

World War II history

During occupation of Poland in World War II, Babice served as location of mass executions of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto nearby. In 1942, 110 Jews from the Gęsiówka Prison in Warsaw were murdered by the Germans in a single Babice massacre :pl:Egzekucja w Babicach|.