Lendo Wielkie ' is a village

Village

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 in the administrative district of Gmina Nowodwór

Gmina Nowodwór

Gmina Nowodwór is a rural gmina in Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Nowodwór, which lies approximately east of Ryki and north-west of the regional capital Lublin....

, within Ryki County

Ryki County

Ryki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the town of Ryki, which lies north-west of the...

, Lublin Voivodeship

Lublin Voivodeship

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, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Nowodwór

Nowodwór, Ryki County

Nowodwór is a village in Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Nowodwór. It lies approximately east of Ryki and north-west of the regional capital Lublin....

, 17 km (11 mi) east of Ryki

Ryki

Ryki is a town in eastern Poland on the main road between Warsaw and Lublin. It has 9,767 inhabitants .Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship . It is the capital of Ryki County.- History :...

, and 55 km (34 mi) north-west of the regional capital Lublin

Lublin

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Lendo Wielkie was once a part of a 15th century country estate encompassing a number of neighboring villages including Lendo Mniejsze, Niedźwiedź, Natalin, Zielony Kąt and Kalinowy Dół. The estate first belonged to szlachta

Szlachta

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 nobility and, at the end of 16th century, was bought by the famous Sobieski

Sobieski

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 family. The last proprietors included Henryk and Kazimierz Jabłońscy.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland

Occupation of Poland

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 in World War II

World War II

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, the village of Lendo Wielkie was raided by a German commando

Commando

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 on February 5, 1943, in retaliation for partisans' movements in the area. Over 30 inhabitants were murdered and their homes burned down.

Notable residents

• Jerzy Latoszyński with wife Eugenia, Righteous Among the Nations
  Polish Righteous among the Nations
  Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust...