Bocheń
Bocheń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łowicz, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Łowicz and northeast of the regional capital, Łódź.
The village has a population of 321.History
Bocheń dates back to prehistoric or early medieval times. The village was mentioned in a medieval document from 1359.
During the invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 16, 1939, the Germans murdered 15 Polish farmers in Bocheń. 12 Polish farmers from Bocheń and nearby Guźnia were also murdered that day by Wehrmacht troops near the Rydwan lake, south of Bocheń and Guźnia. During the German occupation of Poland the village was an important center of Polish resistance, and even underground Polish press was issued there.
