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During the Holocaust, more than a million Jews were murdered in Ukraine. Most of them were shot in mass executions by Einsatzgruppen (death squads) and Ukrainian collaborators. [2] In 1897, the Russian Empire Census found that there were 442 Jews (out of a population of 3,032) living in Ivanhorod, a village today in the Cherkasy Oblast, central ...
Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Śmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.
September 9, 1939 () Incident type: Mass murder: Perpetrators: German Army (Wehrmacht) 29th Motorized Infantry Division. Walter Wessel; Victims: Approximately 300 Polish prisoners of war from the Polish Upper Silesian 74th Infantry Regiment: Documentation: Photos and memoirs of anonymous German soldier: Memorials
Polish teachers from Bydgoszcz are led for execution in Death Valley, November 1, 1939 The events were followed by German reprisals and mass executions of Polish civilians. [ 28 ] [ 20 ] In an act of retaliation for Bloody Sunday, a number of Polish civilians were executed by German military units of the Einsatzgruppen , Waffen SS , and ...
“Glade of death” near the Palmiry. Post-war photography Palmiry. Prisoners are blindfolded before execution Victims and their executioners Death transport with empty trucks back to Warsaw after the execution in Palmiry Official death notice sent by Nazi authorities to the family of one of the victims Forester Adam Herbański (right) with Stanisław Płoski, Chairman of the Commission for ...
Of the brief period of military control from 1 September 1939 – 25 October 1939, Davies wrote: "according to one source, 714 mass executions were carried out, and 6,376 people, mainly Catholics, were shot. Other put the death toll in one town alone at 20,000. It was a taste of things to come."
The same author, in Death in Bydgoszcz 1939–1945 (Bydgoszcz 2011, expanded edition 2012 and 2013), provided 1,500 names along with the circumstances of their deaths (efforts to determine the number of victims are still ongoing). In Tryszczyn, the "Valley of Death", and Otorowo, residents of other towns were also killed – such as the ...
The city of Częstochowa (population 117,000 in 1931) [3] was overrun by the German Army on 3 September 1939 without a fight, during the German invasion of Poland, [4] as the Polish Army "Kraków" units of the 7th Infantry Division, stationing there, had withdrawn the previous day. [5] Many able-bodied men left the city along with the Polish ...