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In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj, near Kovel, was burned and some 600 people were massacred, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrówki. In July 1943, a total of 520 Polish villages were attacked, killing 10,000–11,000 Poles.
6,000 Polish people killed or wounded Fiszewo massacre 27 January 1832 Fiszewo Kingdom of Prussia: 12 Poles [3] Galician slaughter: early 1846 Western Galicia: peasants: about 1,000 nobles: Warsaw massacres of 1861 25–27 February and 8 April 1861 Warsaw Russian Empire: Over 200 Polish protesters [4] Białaszewo massacre 31 March 1863 Białaszewo
Strzelin [ˈstʂɛlʲin] (German: Strehlen, [2] Czech: Střelín) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. [3] It is located on the Oława river , a tributary of the Oder , about 39 kilometres (24 miles) south of the region's capital Wrocław .
In an unprecedented move, the Vatican on Sunday beatified a Polish family of nine — a married couple and their small children — who were executed by the Nazis during World War II for ...
Bloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland.
The Polish historiography of the Volyn tragedy during the dictatorship of the communist party can be broken down into three periods: [2] End 1950–1960s; First half of the 1970s; Second half of the 1980s; In the early People's Republic of Poland, the question of the
The Korosciatyn massacre took place on the night of February 28/29, 1944, [1] during the province-wide wave of massacres of Poles in Volhynia in World War II.Korosciatyn, which now bears the name of Krynica and is located in western Ukraine, was one of the biggest ethnic Polish villages of the interwar Poland's within Buczacz County in Tarnopol Voivodeship (pictured).
Strzelin County [ˈstʂɛlʲin] (Polish: powiat strzeliński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of 622.3 square kilometres (240.3 sq mi).