List of massacres in Poland
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in both historic and modern day areas of Poland (numbers may be approximate):
Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Gdańsk massacre | 13 November 1308 | Gdańsk (Danzig) | 60-1,000 Polish civilians | ||
Massacre of Uman | 20–21 June 1768 | Uman | Cossacks (Ukrainians) | up to 20000 Poles and Jews people killed | |
Massacre of Praga | 4 November 1794 | Praga, Warsaw | Russian Empire | 6,000 Polish people killed or wounded | |
Białystok pogrom | 14–16 June 1906 | Białystok | Black Hundreds
Russian soldiers |
81-88 Jews | |
Intelligenzaktion | September 1939-Spring 1942 | Poland | Nazi Germany | up to 100,000 Polish people, mostly intellectuals | |
Bloody Sunday | 3–4 September 1939 | Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg) | Nazi Germany | 254 People from Bromberg | |
Częstochowa massacre (Bloody Monday) |
4 September 1939 | Częstochowa | Nazi Germany | 88-200 killed | |
Massacre in Ciepielów | 8 September 1939 | Ciepielów | Nazi Germany | Around 300 killed | |
Mogilno massacre | 18 September 1939 | Mogilno | Mogilno Germans minority | 40 Polish (1 Jewish descent) | |
Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz) |
October–November 1939 | Bydgoszcz | Nazi Germany | 1200-1400 | |
Wawer massacre | 26–27 December 1939 | Wawer | Nazi Germany | 107 | 7 shot but survived |
Palmiry massacre | December 1939–June 1941 | Palmiry | Nazi Germany | 1,700 Poles and Jews | |
Katyn Forest massacre |
April–May 1940 | Katyn Forest | Soviet Union | 22,000 Polish killed, most of them officers | 21,857 confirmed by Soviet documents, about 440 of the prospective victims escaped the shootings. After intense research, today most of the victims are known name by name. |
NKVD prisoner massacres in Poland | June–November 1941 | Eastern Poland | Soviet Union | 20,000-30,000 | |
Szczuczyn pogrom | 25–28 June 1941 | Szczuczyn | Polish nationalists | 300 Jews | Pogrom halted after intervention by German army in favor of the Jews. Additional 100 Jews killed in July by Poles. The Jews were subsequently murdered by the Germans. |
Lviv pogroms | June–July 1941 | Lviv | local crowds, Ukrainian nationalists, Germans | 6,000 Jews | |
Radziłów pogrom | 7–9 July 1941 | Radziłów | Poles | 600-2000 Jews | |
Jedwabne pogrom | 10 July 1941 | Jedwabne | Poles (German military police was present, but did not intervene) | 340-1600 Jews | |
Massacre of Lviv professors |
July 1941 | Lviv | Nazi Germany | 45 Polish professors | |
Naliboki massacre | 8 May 1943 | Nalibaki, modern-day Belarus (then Eastern Poland) | Soviet NKVD and Jewish partisans | 129 (including one child) | |
Warsaw Ghetto massacre | 19 April–16 May 1943 | Warsaw ghetto, Warsaw | Nazi Germany | 13,000 Jews | 6,000 Jews burnt to death by German forces. |
Ochota massacre | August 1944 | Ochota, Warsaw | Nazi Germany | 10,000 Polish civilians | Including gang rape, looting and arson. |
Szczurowa massacre | 3 August 1943 | Szczurowa | Nazi Germany | 93 Romanis | |
Koniuchy massacre | 29 January 1944 | Kaniūkai, modern-day Lithuania (then Eastern Poland) | Soviet NKVD and Jewish partisans | 30-40 Poles | |
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Volhynian slaughter) |
1943–1944 | Volhynia | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | about 91,000 (+/- 15,000) mostly Polish people | by far most of the victimes were Poles, but also Ukrainians and people of ethnic minorities were killed |
Huta Pieniacka massacre | 28 February 1944 | Huta Pieniacka | Ukrainian nationalists | 500[1]-1,200[2] | |
Wola massacre | 5–12 August 1944 | Wola, Warsaw | Nazi Germany | 40,000-50,000 Poles | about 30,000 killed during the first three days |
Pawłokoma massacre | 3 March 1945 | Pawłokoma | Poles | 150-366 Ukrainians | |
Przyszowice massacre | 26–28 January 1945 | Przyszowice | Soviet Union | 54-69 | |
Kielce pogrom | 4 July 1946 | Kielce | Poles | 38-42 Jews |
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