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
Gdańsk massacre	13 November 1308	Gdańsk (Danzig)	Teutonic Knights	60-1,000 Polish civilians
Massacre of Praga	November 4, 1794	Praga, Warsaw	Russian Empire	6,000 Polish people killed or wounded
Białystok pogrom	June 14–16, 1906	Białystok	Chernoe Znamia Russian anarchists	81-88 Jews
Intelligenzaktion	September 1939-Spring 1942	Poland	Nazi Germany	up to 100,000 Polish people, mostly intellectuals
Bloody Sunday	September 3-4, 1939	Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg)	Poland	254 Germans from Bromberg
Częstochowa massacre (Bloody Monday)	September 4, 1939	Częstochowa	Nazi Germany	88-200 killed
Massacre in Ciepielów	September 8, 1939	Ciepielów	Nazi Germany	Around 300 killed
Mogilno massacre	September 18, 1939	Mogilno	Mogilno Germans minority	40 Polish (1 Jewish descent)
Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)	October - November, 1939	Bydgoszcz	Nazi Germany	1200-1400
Wawer massacre	December 26-27, 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 and 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 July, 1941	Szczuczyn	Poles	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 1941 - July 1941	Lviv	local crowds, Ukrainian nationalists, Germans	6,000 Jews
Jedwabne pogrom	10 July, 1941	Jedwabne	Poles	340-1600 Jews
Massacre of Lviv professors	July 1941	Lviv	Nazi Germany	45 Polish professors
Warsaw Ghetto massacre	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	August 3, 1943	Szczurowa	Nazi Germany	93 Romanis
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	February 28, 1944	Huta Pieniacka	Ukrainian nationalists	500[1]-1,200[2]
Wola massacre	August 5-12, 1944	Wola, Warsaw	Nazi Germany	40,000-50,000 Poles	about 30,000 killed during the first three days
Pawłokoma massacre	March 3, 1945	Pawłokoma	Poles	366 Ukrainians
Przyszowice massacre	January 26-28, 1945	Przyszowice	Soviet Union	54-69
Kielce pogrom	July 4, 1946	Kielce	Poles	38-42 Jews

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