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January Uprising; Part of the Polish-Russian wars: Poland - The Year 1863, by Jan Matejko, 1864, oil on canvas, 156 × 232 cm, National Museum, Kraków. Pictured is the aftermath of the failed January 1863 Uprising. Captives await transportation to Siberia. Russian officers and soldiers supervise a blacksmith placing shackles on a woman .
"Most mainstream estimates give the number of Volhynian Polish victims [...] compared with some 20,000 Ukrainians killed by Polish forces. In Poland, the situation was the reverse, with some 11,000 Ukrainians killed, [...]" [16] Paul Robert Magocsi — — — 20k "among the more reasonable estimates" [13] Timothy Snyder: 10k — —
September 1939–January 1940 Luszkówko Nazi Germany: around 1,000 Poles The victims were mentally ill people from a psychiatric hospital in Świecie. [44] Szczuczki massacre 1 October 1939 Szczuczki Nazi Germany: 64 Poles including ten boys under the age of 18 [35] Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz) October–November 1939 Bydgoszcz Nazi Germany ...
In January 1944, at the same time as the UPA was carrying out its last wave of massacres of the Polish population, the units of the Home Army in Volhynia embarked on the implementation of Operation Tempest, i.e. an anti-German uprising. To this end, AK units from across Volhynia were to assemble in western Volhynia to form the 27th Volhynian ...
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.
Jerzy Tomaszewski (1924 – 26 January 2016), nom de guerre Jur, was a Polish World War II photographer, artist, and reporter, awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Lech Kaczyński. Tomaszewski is best known for the roughly 1,000 photographs of the Warsaw Uprising which he took in 1944. [ 1 ]
Victims of a massacre committed by the Ukrainian OUN-UPA in Lipniki, Poland, 1943 For many years during the Soviet domination over Communist Poland , the knowledge of Ukrainian massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia perpetrated against ethnic Poles and Jews, by Ukrainian nationalists and peasants was suppressed for political ...
January Uprising (2 C, 18 P) K. Kościuszko Uprising (4 C, 18 P) N. November Uprising (3 C, 19 P) S. ... Greater Poland uprising (1794) Greater Poland uprising (1846)