Morzewo was a private village of
Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the
Kalisz Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. According to the
1921 census, the village had a population of 962, 99.2%
Polish. During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), on November 7, 1939, the German police carried out a massacre of 41 Poles in the village as part of the
Intelligenzaktion. Among the victims were teachers, school principals, priests, policemen, local officials including mayor of the nearby town of
Chodzież, merchants, craftsmen, farmers and former insurgents of the
Greater Poland uprising from various nearby towns and villages. The main sights of Morzewo are the historic church of the Transfiguration and the memorial at the site of the 1939 massacre. ==References==