yLKMaj3xZ1- Pilecki-Institut ApNo one responsible for the massacre was ever punished, as was pointed out by Dariusz Pawłoś, Poland’s Ambassador to Germany. Um das Verbrechen zu vertuschen, wurde das sogenannte Verbrennungskommando gebildet. This means the Wola Massacre accounted for between 20 to 40 percent of all civilian casualties (estimated at 150,000-200,000 deaths) in just three out of the 63 days of the Uprising struggle.įrauen, Kinder, ältere Menschen, sowie Männer wurden erschossen und lebendig verbrannt - es fanden Raubzüge und brutale Vergewaltigungen statt. Depending on the source, between 40,000 and 60,000 residents of the district were shot in mass summary executions, and their bodies burned in heaps on the streets. The Wola Massacre lasted from August 5 until August 7, 1944. “I hope that there will come a day when this testimony from the Warsaw Uprising will one day finds its way into German textbooks,” Prof. ! /cURZbXArEf- Pilecki-Institut April 24, 2023 Zu sehen bis zum Oktober 2023 inklusive unfangreichem Begleitprogramm, bestehend aus Vorträgen, Tagungen etc. Großes Interesse an einem schwierigen Thema:ĭie Eröffnung unserer neuen Ausstellung "Das Massaker von Wola in Warschau. Gawin also mentioned the shocking memories of Wanda Lurie, who lost three of her small children in the massacre, and spent two days under a pile of corpses while being heavily pregnant with her fourth child, to whom she gave birth two weeks later. Gawin quoted Reinefarth’s correspondence, in which he had complained about running low on ammunition needed to summarily execute the civilians. Units under his command murdered around 50,000 civilian inhabitants of the district. Professor Magdalena Gawin, the head of the Pilecki Institute’s central office in Warsaw spoke of Reinefarth’s role in the Wola Massacre. On August 5, 1944, as a retaliatory action for the outbreak of the Warsaw Rising, the Nazi-Germans began executing civilians in the Wola district. Wola Massacre started on this day, 78 years ago
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