| Jedwabne pogrom The Jedwabne pogrom (or Jedwabne massacre) () was the mass murder of Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German Nazi occupied Poland that took place on July 10, 1941, during World War II. The responsibility sensu stricto was ascribed to approximately 40 non-Jewish ethnic Polish men from or around the town of Jedwabne. Jedwabne_pogrom
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| World War II crimes in Poland Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories were established. These categories were waging war, war crimes and crimes against humanity. World_War_II_crimes_in_Poland
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| Koniuchy massacre The Kaniūkai (Koniuchy) massacre was a massacre carried out by a Soviet partisan unit along with a contingent of Jewish partisans under their command during the Second World War in the Polish village of Koniuchy (now Kaniūkai, Lithuania).A small local self defence unit was created to defend the village against repeated Soviet partisans' raids. The village of about 60 households and 300 inhabitants was not fortified but the villagers were armed with a few rifles. Koniuchy_massacre
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| Holy Cross Mountains Brigade The Holy Cross Mountains Brigade () was a tactical unit of the Polish underground NSZ organization during World War II, which did not obey orders to merge with the Home Army in 1944 and as a result was part of the NSZ-ZJ faction. During its wartime existence, the brigade fought practically every other armed faction in Poland, including both the German and Soviet armies as well as other Polish underground units. Holy_Cross_Mountains_Brigade
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| Abraham Gancwajch Abraham Gancwajch (b. unknown — possibly killed in 1943 in Warsaw) was a prominent Polish-Jewish Nazi collaborator in Warsaw Ghetto during Second World War and a "kingpin" of the ghetto underwold. Abraham_Gancwajch
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| Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz Talk:Fear:_Anti-Semitism_in_Poland_after_Auschwitz
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| Kurdybań Warkowicki Kurdybań Warkowicki or Kurdybań-Warkowicki was a village in Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) near the town of Warkowicze () in Dubno County, Poland (now Ukraine) before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939.The village was a site of an OUN-UPA ethnic cleansing operation against the Polish civilians by the Ukrainian Military Group No. Kurdybań_Warkowicki
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| Mateikonys Mateikonys () is a village in the Šalčininkai district municipality, Lithuania near the border with Belarus. According to the 2001 census it had population of 177.From 1923 to 1939 the village was located in Wilno Voivodeship, north-east Second Polish Republic. After the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939 the village was transferred to Lithuania according to the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty. Mateikonys
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| Miežionys Miežionys () is a village in the Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, its population was 110.From 1923 to 1939 the village was located in Wilno Voivodeship, in the north-eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. After the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939 the village was transferred to Lithuania according to the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty. Miežionys
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| Vselyub Vselyub (BelarusianУселюб) is a village in Navahrudak Raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus. Vselyub
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| Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust/Archive 1 Talk:Rescue_of_Jews_by_Poles_during_the_Holocaust/Archive_1
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| History of the Jews in Poland/Archive 2 Talk:History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland/Archive_2
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| Antoni Gawryłkiewicz Antoni Gawryłkiewicz (born 1926 in Poland – since 1956 living in Płock), was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem from Jerusalem in July 1999, for saving the lives of 16 Polish Jews during the Holocaust, between May 1942 and July 1944, at the time of the Nazi German occupation of Poland. Antoni_Gawryłkiewicz
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