Kolnica , is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Augustów, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
History Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was initially occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by Germany until 1944. Two Poles born in Kolnica were murdered by the Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940. In 1944, Kolnica was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. The Polish anti-communist resistance was active in Kolnica, and in 1945 it raided a local communist police station.
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