List of anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland during World War II
A number of massacres (pogroms) targeting the Jewish population took place in German-occupied Poland during World War II. They occurred in the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.
List of pogroms
- Jedwabne pogrom in Jedwabne, carried out by its Polish inhabitants on 10 July 1941.
- Lviv pogroms in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), perpetrated by German security forces and Ukrainian nationalists from 30 June to 2 July 1941, and from 25 to 29 July 1941.
- Szczuczyn pogrom in Szczuczyn, carried out by its Polish inhabitants in June 1941.
- Tykocin pogrom in Tykocin, perpetrated by personnel of Einsatzgruppe B on August 25, 1941.
- Wąsosz pogrom in Wąsosz, carried out by Poles on 5 July 1941.
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