Skłoby

Skłoby [ˈskwɔbɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chlewiska, within Szydłowiec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

[3] After the joint German and Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945.

On April 11, 1940, a clash between the Germans and the Polish resistance took place at Skłoby.

[4] After the clash, German gendarmerie and Selbstschutz pacified the village.

[4] Men aged 15–60 were taken to the nearby forest and executed, and houses with old people, children and women were doused with gasoline and burned down.

Ceremony at the graves of murdered Poles in 1964