Marciszów m is a village in Kamienna Góra County

Kamienna Góra County

Kamienna Góra County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of...

, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province , is one of the 16 voivodeships into which Poland is currently divided. It lies in southwestern Poland...

, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

) called Gmina Marciszów

Gmina Marciszów

Gmina Marciszów is a rural gmina in Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Marciszów, which lies approximately north-west of Kamienna Góra and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006...

. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Kamienna Góra

Kamienna Góra

Kamienna Góra is a town in south-western Poland with 21,440 inhabitants . It is the seat of Kamienna Góra County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Kamienna Góra, although it is not part of the territory of the latter .Kamienna Góra on the Bóbr river is situated in Lower Silesian...

 and 78 km (48 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
At the end of World War II (1944 - 45) in textile factory Kramsta-Methner in Marciszów (Merzdorf) Jewish women from various concentration camps (Terezin, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen etc.) were imprisoned and used for forced labor.