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Katyn massacre. Part of the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Poland (during World War II) and Soviet repressions of Poles. Mass grave of Polish officers in Katyn Forest, exhumed by Germany in 1943. Location. Katyn Forest, Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons in Soviet Union. Date.
Estimated casualties of World War II and its aftermath. Public execution of Polish civilians in German-occupied territory, 1942. Around six million Polish citizens died between 1939 and 1945; an estimated 4,900,000 to 5,700,000 were murdered by German forces and 150,000 to one million by Soviet forces.
Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, [3] along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, [4] included the genocide of millions of Polish people, especially the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles. [b] These mass killings were enacted by the Nazis with further ...
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia ( Polish: rzeź wołyńsko-galicyjska, lit. 'Volhynian-Galician slaughter'; Ukrainian: Волинсько-Галицька трагедія, romanized : Volynsʹko-Halytsʹka trahediya, lit. 'Volhynian-Galician tragedy') were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with the support of parts of the local ...
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Nazi Germany carried out a number of atrocities involving Polish prisoners of war (POWs). During that period, the Wehrmacht is estimated to have mass murdered at least 3,000 Polish POWs, with the largest atrocities being the Ciepielów massacre of 8 September 1939 (~300 victims) and the Zambrów massacre of 13–14 September ...
The Ponary massacre ( Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach ), or the Paneriai massacre ( Lithuanian: Panerių žudynės ), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, [1] [2] [3] during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland. The murders took ...
The Dubingiai massacre was a mass murder of 20–27 Lithuanian civilians in the town of Dubingiai (in Polish, Dubinki) on 23 June 1944. The massacre was carried out by the Polish Home Army 's 5th Wilno Brigade, part of the Polish resistance, in reprisal for the Glinciszki (Glitiškės) massacre of Polish civilians committed on 20 June 1944 by ...
The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. [4] Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive.