Bombing of Frampol

On 13 September, the town of Frampol with a population of 4,000 was bombed by the German bombers of Luftwaffe's 8th Air Corps, under General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen.

[3] In his 1968 book, Augen am Himmel (Eyes on the Sky), German writer Wolfgang Schreyer wrote: "Frampol was chosen as an experimental object, because test bombers, flying at low speed, weren't endangered by AA fire.

We watched possibility of orientation after visible signs, and also the size of village, what guaranteed that bombs nevertheless fall down on Frampol.

[5] After the bombing, on 18 September, a German reconnaissance plane again appeared over Frampol to take photographs of the destruction.

The bombing of Frampol plays an important part in the short story "The Little Shoemakers" by Isaac Bashevis Singer.