Nisko Plan

The Nisko Plan, also, the Lublin Plan, or the Nisko-Lublin Plan (German: Nisko und Lublin Plan), was developed in September 1939 by the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) as the "territorial solution to the Jewish Question". In contrast to similar Nazi "Madagascar" and other plans (invented before World War II), the Nisko Plan was devised after the invasion of Poland, and implemented between October 1939 and April 1940 by the Germans setting up the so-called Lublin reservation known also as the Nisko reservation (Lublin Reservat, or Nisko Reservat), a concentration camp complex in the Generalgouvernement. The plan and the reservation were named after the cities of Lublin and Nisko, which bordered the area, and would have become part of the complex after its envisioned though never realized enlargement.

When the Nazis implemented the plan, they set up a variety of forced labour camps adjacent to the reservation, with the reservation supplying the camps with workforce. These were various camps of the Burggraben project, intended to solidify the Nazi-Soviet demarcation line, and the Lublin-Lipowa camp supplying the local SS units.

Nisko

Nisko [ˈɲiskɔ] is a town in Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland on the San River, with a population of 15,534 inhabitants as of 2 June 2009. Together with neighbouring city of Stalowa Wola, Nisko creates a small agglomeration.

History

Nisko was first mentioned in a document dated 15 April 1439, in which King Władysław III of Varna handed the villages of Nysky, Zaoszicze and Pyelaskowicze to a local nobleman. Furthermore, Nisko was also mentioned by Jan Dlugosz, in his work Liber beneficiorum dioecesis Cracoviensis. The establishment of the village was probably the result of catastrophic Mongol Invasion of Poland, which decimated the population of Lesser Poland. Residents of burned villages and towns resettled in the areas north of the enormous Sandomierz Wilderness. Probably in the second half of the 13th century, a village was established on a hill near the San river.

Due to the location on the outskirts of the wilderness, local residents supported themselves by hunting and trade of timber, which was transported to other centers along the San and the Vistula waterways. In the 1570s, peasants from Nisko and other locations rebelled against the Starosta of Sandomierz, Andrzej Firlej. In 1578, they met with King Stefan Batory, who stayed in Tarnogrod, asking him for justice. The king supported the peasants, urging Firlej to come to Warsaw. On 10 November 1583, Batory issued a bill, in which he backed demands of the peasants.

Nisko (disambiguation)

Nisko is a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship in south-west Poland.

Nisko may also refer to the following villages: