Blizna V-2 missile launch site
| Established | 2011 |
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| Location | Blizna 68, 39–104 Ocieka, Ropczyce-Sędziszów, Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°11′0″N 21°36′0″E / 50.18333°N 21.60000°E |
| Type | War museum |
| Owner | Gmina Ostrów |
| Website | Park Historyczny Blizna |
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| SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager | |
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| Concentration camp | |
| Commandant | SS Oberführer Bernhardt Voss |
| Killed | 15,000 total: 7,000 Jews, 5,000 Soviets, 3,000 Polish |
| Liberated by | Armia Krajowa, Red Army |
The Blizna V-2 missile launch site was the site of a World War II German V-2 missile firing range. Today there is a small museum located in the Park Historyczny Blizna (Historical Park) in Blizna, Poland. After the RAF strategic bombing of the V-2 rocket launch site in Peenemünde, Germany, in August 1943, some of the test and launch facilities were relocated to Blizna in November 1943. The first of 139 V-2 launches was carried out from the Blizna launch site on 5 November 1943.