List of massacres in Poland

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in both historic and modern day areas of Poland (numbers may be approximate):

## Massacres until 1939[edit]

Name  | Date  | Location  | Perpetrators  | Deaths  | Notes

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Sack of Sandomierz (1241) | 13 February 1241  | Sandomierz | Mongol Empire |  | The Mongols massacred almost all residents.
Sack of Kraków (1241) | March 1241  | Kraków | Mongol Empire |  | The Mongols massacred almost all residents.
Sack of Sandomierz (1260) | February 1260  | Sandomierz  | Mongol Empire |  | The Mongols massacred almost all residents.
Gdańsk massacre | 13 November 1308  | Gdańsk |  Teutonic Knights | 60–1,000 Polish civilians  |
Gołańcz massacre  | 3 May 1656  | Gołańcz |  Swedish Empire | 25+ Poles  | Remains of 22 adults (incl. six women) and three children were discovered during an archaeological survey in 2014.[1]
Kościan massacre of 1656  | 10 October 1656  | Kościan |  Swedish Empire | 300 Polish inhabitants  | [2]
Massacre of Uman | 20–21 June 1768  | Humań | Cossacks (Ukrainians)  | up to 20,000 Poles and Jews  |
Massacre of Praga | 4 November 1794  | Praga, Warsaw |  Russian Empire | 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 |  Russian Empire | 16+ Polish civilians  | including women[5]
Bredynki massacre  | 6 May 1863  | Bredynki |  Kingdom of Prussia | 17 Poles  | further 30 people wounded[6]
Lututów massacre | 15 June 1863  | Lututów |  Russian Empire | Dozens of Polish POWs  | [7]
Wygoda massacre  | 21 July 1863  | Wygoda |  Russian Empire | 50 young Poles  | [8][9]
Białystok pogrom | 14–16 June 1906  | Białystok | Black Hundreds
Russian soldiers  | 81–88 Jews  |
Mysłowice massacre  | 15 August 1919  | Mysłowice |  Weimar Republic | 10 Poles  | Seven miners, two women and a 13-year-old boy[10]
Wilno school massacre | 6 May 1925  | Wilno (now Vilnius)  | 2 students  | 5 (including themselves)  | First school shooting in Polish history

## Massacres during World War II and communist rule[edit]

Name  | Date  | Location  | Perpetrators  | Deaths  | Notes

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Intelligenzaktion | September 1939-Spring 1942  | Poland |  Nazi Germany | up to 100,000 Polish people, mostly intellectuals  |
Torzeniec massacre | 1–2 September 1939  | Torzeniec |  Nazi Germany | 37 Poles  |
Zimnowoda and Parzymiechy massacre  | 2 September 1939  | Zimnowoda and Parzymiechy |  Nazi Germany | 113 Poles  | including 30 children[11]
Wyszanów massacre | 2 September 1939  | Wyszanów |  Nazi Germany | 24 Poles  |
Gostyń massacre  | 2 September 1939  | Gostyń |  Nazi Germany | 13 Poles  | including four women and a parish priest[12]
Bukownica massacre  | 2 September 1939  | Bukownica |  Nazi Germany | 7+ Poles  | [13]
Łaziska massacre  | 2–6 September 1939  | Łaziska Górne, Łaziska Dolne and Łaziska Średnie  |  Nazi Germany | 69 Poles  | including 30 children[14]
Albertów massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Albertów |  Nazi Germany | 159 Poles  | [11]
Krzepice massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Krzepice |  Nazi Germany | 30 Poles  | [15]
Mysłów massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Mysłów |  Nazi Germany | 22 Poles  | Victims were burned alive, including 10 children.[11]
Pińczyce massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Pińczyce |  Nazi Germany | 20 Poles  | [15]
Świekatowo massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Świekatowo |  Nazi Germany | 26 Poles  | [16]
Święta Anna massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Święta Anna |  Nazi Germany | 29 Poles  | [15]
Jankowice massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Jankowice |  Nazi Germany | 13 Poles  | including women and children[12]
Zgoń massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Zgoń |  Nazi Germany | 8 Poles  | including one woman[17]
Lędziny massacre  | 3 September 1939  | Lędziny |  Nazi Germany | 7 Poles  | including a 16-year-old girl[18]
Bloody Sunday | 3–4 September 1939  | Bydgoszcz |  Nazi Germany | 254  |
Świętochłowice massacre  | 3–4 September 1939  | Świętochłowice |  Nazi Germany | 10 Poles  | [19]
Częstochowa massacre
(Bloody Monday)  | 4 September 1939  | Częstochowa |  Nazi Germany | 88–200  |
Złoczew massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Złoczew |  Nazi Germany | 200 Poles and Jews  |
Katowice massacre
(Bloody Monday)  | 4 September 1939  | Katowice |  Nazi Germany | about 80 Polish defenders  | including Polish boy and girl scouts
Kruszyna massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Kruszyna |  Nazi Germany | dozens of Poles  | including 10 children[15]
Cielętniki massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Cielętniki |  Nazi Germany | 28 Poles  | including four children[15]
Pasternik massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Pasternik |  Nazi Germany | 29 Poles  | including one woman[20]
Pławno massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Pławno |  Nazi Germany | 15 Poles  | [15]
Pszczyna massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Pszczyna |  Nazi Germany | 14 Poles  | 13 boy scouts and a teacher[12]
Siewierz massacre  | 4 September 1939  | Siewierz |  Nazi Germany | 10 Poles  | including several teenagers[21]
Wyry massacre  | 4–6 September 1939  | Wyry |  Nazi Germany | over 10 Poles  | [12]
Serock massacre  | 5 September 1939  | Serock |  Nazi Germany | over 80 Polish POWs  | [22]
Kajetanowice massacre  | 5 September 1939  | Kajetanowice |  Nazi Germany | over 70 Poles  | including ten children under the age of 16[15]
Krasnosielc massacre  | 5–6 September 1939  | Krasnosielc |  Nazi Germany | 50 Jews  |
Moryca and Longinówka massacre  | 6 September 1939  | Moryca and Longinówka |  Nazi Germany | Polish POWs, including 19 officers  | [22]
Uniejów massacre  | 6, 8 September 1939  | Uniejów |  Nazi Germany | 50  | [23]
Będzin massacres  | 6, 9 September 1939  | Będzin |  Nazi Germany | 20 Poles and 100 Jews  | [24]
Wylazłów massacre  | 7 September 1939  | Wylazłów |  Nazi Germany | 24 Poles  | [23]
Mordarka massacre  | 7 September 1939  | Mordarka |  Nazi Germany | 9 Jews and one Pole  | [25]
Wągrowiec massacre  | 7 September 1939  | Wągrowiec |  Nazi Germany | 8 Poles  | [23]
Balin massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Balin |  Nazi Germany | 21 Poles  | [23]
Koźle massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Koźle |  Nazi Germany | 17 Poles  | [13]
Massacre in Ciepielów | 8 September 1939  | Ciepielów |  Nazi Germany | around 300 Polish POWs  |
Tyszki massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Tyszki-Ciągaczki |  Nazi Germany | 33 Poles  | [26]
Chechło massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Chechło near Pabianice |  Nazi Germany | 30 Poles  | [27]
Dominikowice massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Dominikowice |  Nazi Germany | 23 Poles  | [13]
Czekaj massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Czekaj |  Nazi Germany | 13 Poles  | [23]
Bagatele massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Bagatele |  Nazi Germany | 11 Poles  | [28]
Siemianowice Śląskie massacre  | 8 September 1939  | Siemianowice Śląskie |  Nazi Germany | 6 Poles  | [19]
Lipsko massacre  | 8–9 September 1939  | Lipsko |  Nazi Germany | 66  | [29]
Mszczonów massacres  | 8, 11 September 1939  | Mszczonów |  Nazi Germany | 11 Polish POWs and 20 Polish civilians  | Including the town's mayor.[22][26]
Sławków massacre  | 9 September 1939  | Sławków |  Nazi Germany | 98 Jews  | [29]
Wyszków massacre  | 9 September 1939  | Wyszków |  Nazi Germany | 65+ Jews  | [29]
Orło massacre  | 9 September 1939  | Orło |  Nazi Germany | 10 Poles  | [27]
Pniewo massacre  | 9 September 1939  | Pniewo |  Nazi Germany | Over 10 Poles  | [26]
Mielno massacre  | 9 September 1939  | Mielno |  Nazi Germany | 7 Poles  | [23]
Łęczyca massacre  | 9–10 September 1939  | Łęczyca |  Nazi Germany | 29 Poles  | [26]
Mszadla massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Mszadla |  Nazi Germany | 153 Poles  | [30]
Gniazdowo massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Gniazdowo |  Nazi Germany | around 20 Poles  | [27]
Zdziechowa massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Zdziechowa |  Nazi Germany | 24 Poles  | [31]
Rawa Mazowiecka massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Rawa Mazowiecka |  Nazi Germany | 40  | [26]
Bądków massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Bądków |  Nazi Germany | 22 Poles  | including a 14-year-old boy[13]
Piaseczno massacre of 1939  | 10 September 1939  | Piaseczno |  Nazi Germany | 21 Polish POWs  | [22]
Stare Rogowo massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Stare Rogowo |  Nazi Germany | 21 Poles  | [32]
Laski Szlacheckie massacre  | 10 September 1939  | Laski Szlacheckie |  Nazi Germany | 20 Poles  | including four families[26]
Karczew massacre  | 11 September 1939  | Karczew |  Nazi Germany | 75 Poles  | [33]
Skierniewice massacre  | 11 September 1939  | Skierniewice |  Nazi Germany | 60  | [33]
Kowalewice massacre  | 11 September 1939  | Kowalewice |  Nazi Germany | 23 Poles  | [34]
Obora massacre  | 11 September 1939  | Obora |  Nazi Germany | 22 Poles  | [27]
Niewolno massacre  | 11 September 1939  | Niewolno |  Nazi Germany | 18 Poles  | [35]
Jankowo Dolne massacre  | 11 September 1939  | Jankowo Dolne |  Nazi Germany | 12 Poles  | including women and children[23]
Szczucin massacre | 12 September 1939  | Szczucin |  Nazi Germany | around 40 Polish POWs and around 30 Polish civilians  | [36]
Parma massacre  | 12 September 1939  | Parma |  Nazi Germany | 32 Poles  | [26]
Koźmice Wielkie massacre  | 12 September 1939  | Koźmice Wielkie |  Nazi Germany | 32 Jews  | [29]
Sadówka massacre  | 12 September 1939  | Sadówka |  Nazi Germany | around 12 Poles  | [37]
Łowicz massacre  | 13 September 1939  | Łowicz |  Nazi Germany | 21  | [26]
Mień massacre  | 13 September 1939  | Mień |  Nazi Germany | 9 Poles  | [38]
Zambrów massacre | night of 13–14 September 1939  | Zambrów |  Nazi Germany | more than 200 Polish POW |
Olszewo massacre  | 14 September 1939  | Olszewo |  Nazi Germany | 30 Polish POWs and 23 civilians  | [38]
Moskwin massacre  | 14 September 1939  | Moskwin |  Nazi Germany | 9 Poles  | [39]
Sulejówek massacre  | 15 September 1939  | Sulejówek and Długa Szlachecka  |  Nazi Germany | over 90 Poles  | [26]
Massacre in Dynów | 15-28 September 1939  | Dynów |  Nazi Germany | Around 300 killed  |
Retki massacre  | 16 September 1939  | Retki |  Nazi Germany | 22 Poles  | [26]
Henryków massacre  | 17 September 1939  | Henryków |  Nazi Germany | 76 Poles  | including women and children[33]
Leszno massacre  | 17 September 1939  | Leszno |  Nazi Germany | around 50 Poles  | [33]
Bąków massacre  | 17 September 1939  | Bąków |  Nazi Germany | 18 Poles  | including two families[26]
Śladów massacre  | 18 September 1939  | Śladów |  Nazi Germany | around 300 Poles, including POWs and refugees  | including women and children[33]
Mogilno massacre | 18 September 1939  | Mogilno |  Mogilno Germans minority  | 40 Polish (1 Jewish descent)  |
Błonie massacre  | 18 September 1939  | Błonie |  Nazi Germany | 50 Jews and Poles  |
Gąbin massacre  | 19–21 September 1939  | Gąbin |  Nazi Germany | 20 Poles  | [33]
Zakroczym massacre | 28 September 1939  | Zakroczym |  Nazi Germany | about 600 Polish POWs  |
Majdan Wielki massacre | 20 September 1939  | Majdan Wielki |  Nazi Germany | 42 Polish POWs  | [36]
Boryszew massacre  | 22 September 1939  | Boryszew |  Nazi Germany | 50 Polish POWs  | [40]
Psia Górka massacre  | 22 September 1939  | Psia Górka |  Soviet Union | over 100 Polish POWs and 300 Polish civilians  | [41]
Husynne massacre  | 23 September 1939  | Husynne |  Soviet Union | 25 Polish POWs  | [41]
Mokrany massacre  | 28 September 1939  | Mokrany |  Soviet Union | 18 Polish POWs  | [41]
Luszkówko massacre  | September 1939–January 1940  | Luszkówko |  Nazi Germany | around 1,000 Poles  | The victims were mentally ill people from a psychiatric hospital in Świecie.[42]
Szczuczki massacre  | 1 October 1939  | Szczuczki |  Nazi Germany | 64 Poles  | including ten boys under the age of 18[33]
Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz) | October–November 1939  | Bydgoszcz |  Nazi Germany | 1,200–1,400  |
Dalki massacre  | 7 November 1939  | Dalki |  Nazi Germany | 24 Poles  | including 10 defenders of Kłecko[43]
Ostrów Mazowiecka massacre | 11 November 1939  | Ostrów Mazowiecka |  Nazi Germany | up to 600 Jews  |
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  |
Sieklówka massacre  | December 1939–January 1940  | Sieklówka |  Nazi Germany | 93 Poles  | [44]
Piotrowice massacre  | 18 January 1940  | Piotrowice |  Nazi Germany | 39 Poles  | [45]
Dąbrówka Mała massacre  | 3–4 April 1940  | Dąbrówka Mała |  Nazi Germany | 40 Poles  | [45]
Celiny massacre  | 4 April 1940  | Celiny |  Nazi Germany | 29 Poles  | [45]
Skłoby massacre  | 11 April 1940  | Skłoby |  Nazi Germany | 265 Poles  | including women and children[46]
Katyn 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.
Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz | 31 July 1940  | Olkusz |  Nazi Germany | 20 Polish civilians  |
NKVD prisoner massacres in Poland | June–November 1941  | Eastern Poland |  Soviet Union | 20,000–30,000  |
Nowosiółki massacre  | 1941  | Nowosiółki |  Nazi Germany | Several hundred  | The victims were patients of a local psychiatric hospital.[47]
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.
1941 Białystok massacres | 27 June, 3–4 July, 12–13 July 1941  | Białystok |  Nazi Germany | 6,500–7,000 Jews  |
Lviv pogroms | June–July 1941  | Lviv | local crowds, Ukrainian nationalists, Germans  | 6,000 Jews  |
Ponary massacre | July 1941–August 1944  | Ponary |  Nazi Germany
Ypatingasis būrys | 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians  |
Radziłów pogrom | 7–9 July 1941  | Radziłów | Poles  | 600–2,000 Jews  |
Jedwabne pogrom | 10 July 1941  | Jedwabne | Poles (German military police was present, but did not intervene)  | 340–1,600 Jews  |
Massacre of Lwów professors | July 1941  | Lviv |  Nazi Germany | 45 Polish professors  |
Mass murders in Tykocin | August 1941  | Tykocin |  Nazi Germany | some 700 Jews  | Some 150 Jews managed to escape the massacre, however most were handed over to the Germans.
Czarny Las massacre | 14–15 August 1941  | Czarny Las near Stanisławów |  Nazi Germany | 250–300 Poles  |
Zdzięcioł massacres | 30 April and 10 August 1942  | Zdzięcioł |  Nazi Germany | 3,000–5,000 Jews  |
Święciany massacre | 19–20 May 1942  | Švenčionys, modern-day Lithuania (then eastern Poland)  | Lithuanian Security Police | 400–1,200 Poles  |
Rajsk massacre  | 16 July 1942  | Rajsk |  Nazi Germany | 142  | [48]
Nowy Bidaczów massacre  | 6 October 1942  | Nowy Bidaczów |  Nazi Germany | 22 Poles  | retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[49]
Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre | 6 December 1942  | Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka |  Nazi Germany | 31 Poles (including children) and 2 Jews  | including women and children; retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust
Świesielice massacre  | 7–8 December 1942  | Świesielice |  Nazi Germany | 15 Poles  |
Kitów massacre | 11 December 1942  | Kitów |  Nazi Germany | 164+ Poles  | including women and children
Samoklęski massacre  | January 1943  | Samoklęski |  Nazi Germany | 27 Jews and one Pole  | retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[50]
Stary Lubotyń massacre  | 23 January 1943  | Stary Lubotyń |  Nazi Germany | 8 Poles  | [51]
Dzierążnia massacre  | 28–29 January 1943  | Dzierążnia |  Nazi Germany | over 60 Poles  |
Budy and Huta Dzierążyńska massacre  | 29 January 1943  | Budy Dzierążyńskie and Huta Dzierążyńska |  Nazi Germany | 50–80 Poles  |
Sumin massacre  | 29 January 1943  | Sumin |  Nazi Germany | 50  |
Róża massacre  | 2 February 1943  | Róża |  Nazi Germany | dozens  |
Imbramowice massacre  | 2 February 1943  | Imbramowice |  Nazi Germany | 50–60 Romanis  |
Paulinów massacre  | 24 February 1943  | Paulinów |  Nazi Germany | 11 Poles and 3 Jews  | retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust
Siedliska massacre | 15 March 1943  | Siedliska |  Nazi Germany | 5 Poles and 4 Jews  | retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust
Różaniec massacre  | 18 March 1943  | Różaniec |  Nazi Germany | around 70 Poles  |
Naliboki massacre | 8 May 1943  | Naliboki, 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.
Szarajówka massacre | 18 May 1943  | Szarajówka |  Nazi Germany | 58–67 Poles  |
Kielce cemetery massacre | 23 May 1943  | Jewish Cemetery, Kielce |  Nazi Germany | 45 Jewish children  |
Ispina massacre  | 2 June 1943  | Ispina |  Nazi Germany | 13 Poles  |
Strużki massacre  | 3 June 1943  | Strużki |  Nazi Germany | 74+ Poles  |
Fidury and Koziki massacre  | 13 June 1943  | Fidury and Koziki |  Nazi Germany | 21 Poles  | including children[52]
Posądza massacre  | 22 June 1943  | Posądza |  Nazi Germany | 7 Poles  | including three children; retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[53]
Majdan Nowy massacre | 24 June 1943  | Majdan Nowy |  Nazi Germany | 28–36 Poles  |
Cegłów massacre  | 28 June 1943  | Cegłów |  Nazi Germany | 26 Poles and an unknown number of Jews  | including women and children; retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[53]
Majdan Stary massacre | 3 July 1943  | Majdan Stary |  Nazi Germany | 75 Poles  |
Liszki massacre  | 4 July 1943  | Liszki |  Nazi Germany | 30 Poles  | 27 men and 3 women
Michniów massacre | 12–13 July 1943  | Michniów |  Nazi Germany | about 204 Poles  | including 48 children
Sikory-Tomkowięta massacre  | 13 July 1943  | Sikory-Tomkowięta |  Nazi Germany | 49 Poles  | [48]
Łysa Góra massacre  | 13 July 1943  | Łysa Góra near Zawady |  Nazi Germany | 58 Poles  | [48]
Krasowo-Częstki massacre | 17 July 1943  | Krasowo-Częstki |  Nazi Germany | 257 Poles  | including 83 children under the age of 17[48]
Wnory-Wandy massacre  | 21 July 1943  | Wnory-Wandy |  Nazi Germany | 32 Poles  | [54]
Radwanowice massacre  | 21 July 1943  | Radwanowice |  Nazi Germany | 30 Poles  |
Gamratka massacre  | 27 July 1943  | Gamratka |  Nazi Germany | 3 Jews and 2 Poles  | retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[55]
Jasionowo massacre  | 2 August 1943  | Jasionowo |  Nazi Germany | 58 Poles  | including 19 children[54]
Szczurowa massacre | 3 August 1943  | Szczurowa |  Nazi Germany | 93 Romanis  |
Operation Harvest Festival | 3 August 1943  | Lublin District |  Nazi Germany | 43,000 Jews of Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki |
Drewnowo-Gołyń massacre  | 11 September 1943  | Drewnowo-Gołyń |  Nazi Germany | 9 Poles  | [56]
Tyczyn massacre  | 15 October 1943  | Tyczyn |  Nazi Germany | 5 Poles  | including one woman; retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[57]
Kietlin massacre  | October 1943  | Kietlin |  Nazi Germany | 8 Jews and 3 Poles  | including women and children; retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust[58]
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
Koniuchy massacre | 29 January 1944  | Kaniūkai, modern-day Lithuania (then Eastern Poland)  |  Soviet NKVD and Jewish partisans | 30–40 Poles |
Zwierzyniec massacre  | 2 February 1944  | Zwierzyniec |  Nazi Germany | 20 Poles  | including a 15-year-old boy
Huta Pieniacka massacre | 28 February 1944  | Huta Pieniacka | Ukrainian nationalists | 500[59]–1,200[60] |
Wanaty massacre  | 28 February 1944  | Wanaty |  Nazi Germany | 108 Poles  | including 35 women and 47 children
Jamy massacre  | 8 March 1944  | Jamy |  Nazi Germany | 152 Poles  |
Jabłoń-Dobki massacre | 8 March 1944  | Jabłoń-Dobki |  Nazi Germany | 91 Poles  | including 31 women and 31 children[54]
Markowa massacre  | 24 March 1944  | Markowa |  Nazi Germany | 8 Poles and 8 Jews  | retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust
Chodaczków Wielki massacre | 16 April 1944  | Chodaczków Wielki |  Nazi Germany | 862 Poles  | including children
Sochy massacre | 1 June 1944  | Sochy |  Nazi Germany | 181–200 Polish civilians  |
Olszanka massacre  | 5 June 1944  | Olszanka |  Nazi Germany | around 100  | including children
Lublin Castle massacre  | 22 July 1944  | Lublin |  Nazi Germany | over 300 Poles and Jews  |
Chłaniów and Władysławin massacre  | 23 July 1944  | Chłaniów-Kolonia and Władysławin | Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense | 44–45 Poles  |
Nur massacre  | 4 August 1944  | Nur |  Nazi Germany | around 120 Poles  | [61]
Ochota massacre | 4–25 August 1944  | Ochota, Warsaw |  Nazi Germany | 10,000 Polish civilians  | Including gang rape, looting and arson.
Wola massacre | 5–12 August 1944  | Wola, Warsaw |  Nazi Germany | 40,000–50,000 Poles  | about 30,000 killed during the first three days
Małaszek massacre  | 31 August 1944  | Małaszek |  Nazi Germany | over 30 Poles  | including women and children[62]
Plewki massacre  | 31 August 1944  | Plewki |  Nazi Germany | 11 Poles  | [62]
Lipniak-Majorat massacre  | 2 September 1944  | Lipniak-Majorat |  Nazi Germany | around 450 Poles  | including women and children[62][63]
Bloody Christmas Eve in Ochotnica Dolna | 23 December 1944  | Ochotnica Dolna |  Nazi Germany | 56 Poles  | including 19 children and 21 women
Nieławice massacre  | 31 December 1944–1 January 1945  | Nieławice |  Nazi Germany | 56 Poles  | including 32 children under the age of 14[64]
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 | 63 Polish civilians, 12 Soviet POWs  | [65]
Dąbrówka Nowa Massacre | 22 January 1945  | Dąbrówka Nowa |  Soviet Union | over 100 Latvians  |
Kortowo massacre  | 22 January 1945  | Kortowo |  Soviet Union | around 600  | [66]
Biadki massacre  | 23 January 1945  | Biadki |  Soviet Union | 18 Hungarian POWs  | [67]
Łomnica massacre  | 24 January 1945  | Łomnica |  Nazi Germany | 17  | Massacre committed during a death march.[68]
Przyszowice massacre | 26–28 January 1945  | Przyszowice |  Soviet Union | 54–69  |
Kuźnica Żelichowska massacre  | 28 January 1945  | Kuźnica Żelichowska |  Nazi Germany | 6 Italian POW generals  | [69]
Podgaje massacre | 31 January 1945  | Podgaje |  Nazi Germany | 160–210 Polish POWs  |
Leśno massacre  | 9 February 1945  | Leśno |  Nazi Germany | 64 Jewish women  | [70]
Pawłokoma massacre | 3 March 1945  | Pawłokoma | Poles  | 150–366 Ukrainians  |
Wierzchowiny massacre | 6 June 1945  | Wierzchowiny | National Armed Forces | 50-196  |
Augustów roundup | 10-25 July 1945  | Suwałki and Augustów regions  |  Soviet Union | about 600 anti-communist | Out of 2,000 arrested by the Soviet forces, about 600 have disappeared.
Zawadka Morochowska massacres | 25 January, 28 March, and 13 April 1946  | Zawadka Morochowska | Polish People's Army | 73 Ukrainians and Lemkos |
1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW | February 1946  | Bielsk and Hajnówka County | Rajs' unit  | 79 Belarusians  |
Kielce pogrom | 4 July 1946  | Kielce | Poles  | 38–42 Jews  |
Pacification of Wujek | 16 December 1981  | Wujek Coal Mine | ZOMO | 9 striking miners  |

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