Discover the feudal origins of these idiosyncratic regions, and get cultural ... let Culture.pl take you on a tour of Poland’s voivodeships. The name ‘wojewoda’ is said to come from leading warriors, ...

By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from disease or starvation, or were sent to the Treblinka death camp.