Suwałki

Suwałki, city, Podlaskie województwo (province), extreme northeastern Poland. First chronicled as a village having a hermitage of the Camaldolese monks (1682–90), Suwałki received its town rights in 1715. In 1796 it came under Prussian influence and became a Russian garrison in 1897. The city, located on the banks of the Czarna Hańcza River, was heavily damaged by German bombing in 1939. In 1940 it became the site of a Nazi concentration camp and headquarters for...