Wąsosz pogrom

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the village of Wąsosz (Podlaskie Voivodeship) was taken by the Germans in the second week of the war.

[1] The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East two weeks earlier, on 17 September 1939, pursuant to the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

[3] On the night of 4 and 5 July 1941, a small group of men armed with axes and iron clubs murdered several dozens of the Jewish inhabitants of Wąsosz.

[7][8][9] According to Andrzej Żbikowski the townfolk of Radziłów drove away the Wąsosz killers so that they could kill and steal the property of the Jews for themselves.

Others, such as Piotr Kadicik, the president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, supported the exhumation.

The IPN did not identify any additional perpetrators beyond two Polish men sentenced for their actions shortly after World War II.