Taking place on June 24, 1943, this pacification operation resulted in the deaths of an estimated 28 to 36 residents, including women and children.
Seven individuals were executed on suspicion of aiding Jews,[1][2] accompanied by reports of the Germans setting fire to ten buildings within the village.
[3] In the autumn of 1942, at the direction of SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik, SS and Police Leader in the Lublin district of the General Government, a significant Nazi displacement operation commenced in the Zamość region.
[5] Partisan units from the Peasant Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie), Home Army (Armia Krajowa), and communist People's Guard (Gwardia Ludowa) attempted to impede pacification and displacement efforts, targeting German police, economic sites, and transportation facilities.
[6][7] The resistance put up by the Polish partisans, combined with the difficult situation of German troops on the Eastern Front, forced the occupiers to temporarily suspend the deportations.
[4] As part of the Aktion Werwolf (Operation Werewolf) that summer, the occupiers executed approximately 1,000 Poles across 163 villages in the Zamość region.
[13] Witnesses reported that many SS men appeared intoxicated[14] as they indiscriminately killed villagers, regardless of age or gender,[13] and set buildings ablaze.