Parzniew

Parzniew
—  Village  —
Monument to the victims of the 1939 massacre
Parzniew
Coordinates:
Country Poland
Voivodeship Masovian
County Pruszków
Gmina Brwinów

Parzniew [ˈpaʐɲef] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brwinów, within Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of Brwinów, 3 km (2 mi) south-west of Pruszków, and 18 km (11 mi) south-west of Warsaw.

During the Polish Defensive War, on 12 September 1939, around 100 Polish prisoners of war were massacred in Parzniew by the German Wehrmacht.

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