Bloody Christmas Eve in Ochotnica Dolna

23 December 1944 members of SS murdered 56 residents of Ochotnica Dolna and partially burnt the village.

On December 22, 1944, Germans arrived in Ochotnica Dolna, who within the so-called the food campaign robbed the village.

Despite the opposition of the local residents, a group of Soviet partisans attacked German soldiers, killing two of them, including non - commissioned SS-Unterscharführer Bruno Koch.

The Germans wanted to burn and plunge the next village Ochotnica Górna, but the snow was too heavy and their cars were not able to travel up the hill.

The martyrdom of the village was commemorated by the memorial designed by Henryk Burzec, erected in 1964 in the center of Ochotnica Dolna, showing 20-year old Maria Kawalec, who is holding her small child next to her chest.