Glinojeck is a town in north-central Poland, in the Ciechanów County, in Masovian Voivodeship, with 3,052 inhabitants (2006).
History A sugar refinery was founded in Glinojeck in 1858.
Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by Germany until 1945. Disabled people from Glinojeck were murdered by the Germans in a massacre carried out in February 1940 in the nearby village of Ościsłowo. A local Polish policeman was murdered by the Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940.
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