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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 .
The greatest number of killings took place in the area near Górczewska and Moczydła streets, in particular at a building on Górczewska Street located near a railway embankment. The mass executions at this site began on 4 August and continued until 8 August 1944. The greatest number of victims were killed on 5 August (known as "Black Saturday").
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 ...
Mass executions also took place on November 12 and 13 (about 240 and 120 victims, respectively), [30] December 9 (about 146 victims, including 16 Jewish women with one young child), [31] December 14 (about 230 victims), [32] December 16 (about 100 victims), [33] January 13, 1944 (about 260 victims) [34] and January 28 (about 170–180 victims).
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 ...
31 December 1944–1 January 1945 Nieławice Nazi Germany: 56 Poles including 32 children under the age of 14 [68] Przyrów massacre 8 January 1945 Przyrów Nazi Germany: 43 Poles Zawady Małe massacre 21–22 January 1945 Zawady Małe Nazi Germany: 110 Poles and 7 Russians Marchwacz massacre 21–22 January 1945 Marchwacz Nazi Germany
[1] [2] The estimated number of Jewish victims varies, ranging up to 2,000. [3] In 2021, Julian Kwiek published the first scientific register of incidents and victims of anti-Jewish violence in Poland from 1944 to 1947; according to Kwiek's calculations, the number of victims was 1,074 to 1,121. [4]
The Holocaust "Güterwagen" wagon holding an average of 100 victims, occupied Poland. There are many estimates of the total number of people murdered at Treblinka; most scholarly estimates range from 700,000 to 900,000, [7] [8] meaning that more Jews were murdered at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp except for Auschwitz. [10]