Antoni Listowski

[1] General Antoni Listowski won the battle for Pinsk in March 1919 commanding the 9th Infantry Division.

[2] The city was taken over in a late-winter blizzard with considerable human losses sustained by his 34th Infantry Regiment who forced the Bolsheviks to retreat to the other side of the river.

He had had wide experience on the front and possessed the temperament of an ardent fighter, particularly valuable when directing the kind of manoeuvres necessary in a war conducted on the country's borders.

— Józef Lewandowski[4]On 5 April 1919, Listowski's troops committed the Pinsk massacre, executing thirty five suspected pro-Bolshevik Jews.

In his order to the population of Pinsk of 7 April 1919, two days after the massacre, Listowski claimed that the "town's Jews as a whole were guilty of the crime of blatant ingratitude.