Celiny, Tarnowskie Góry County
Celiny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ożarowice, within Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south of Ożarowice, east of Tarnowskie Góry, and north of the regional capital Katowice. The village has a population of 260. During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans carried out a massacre of 29 Poles, merchants, miners, craftsmen and workers from various nearby cities, in Celiny (see "Nazi crimes against the Polish nation"). References.