List of massacres in Poland

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in both historic and modern day areas of Poland (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Perpetrators	Deaths	Notes
Gdańsk massacre	13 November 1308	Gdańsk	Teutonic Knights	60–1,000 Polish civilians
Massacre of Uman	20–21 June 1768	Uman	Cossacks (Ukrainians)	up to 20,000 Poles and Jews
Massacre of Praga	4 November 1794	Praga, Warsaw	Russian Empire	6,000 Polish people killed or wounded
Galician slaughter	early 1846	Western Galicia	peasants	about 1,000 nobles
Białystok pogrom	14–16 June 1906	Białystok	Black Hundreds Russian soldiers	81–88 Jews
Wilno school massacre	6 May 1925	Wilno (now Vilnius)	2 students	5 (including themselves)	First school shooting in Polish history
Intelligenzaktion	September 1939-Spring 1942	Poland	Nazi Germany	up to 100,000 Polish people, mostly intellectuals
Bloody Sunday	3–4 September 1939	Bydgoszcz	Nazi Germany	254
Częstochowa massacre (Bloody Monday)	4 September 1939	Częstochowa	Nazi Germany	88–200
Katowice massacre (Bloody Monday)	4 September 1939	Katowice	Nazi Germany	about 80 Polish defenders	including Polish boy and girl scouts
Massacre in Ciepielów	8 September 1939	Ciepielów	Nazi Germany	170-200 Jewish civilians
Zambrów massacre	night of 13–14 September 1939	Zambrów	Nazi Germany	more than 200 Polish POW
Massacre in Dynów	15-28 September 1939	Dynów	Nazi Germany	Around 300 killed
Mogilno massacre	18 September 1939	Mogilno	Mogilno Germans minority	40 Polish (1 Jewish descent)
Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)	October–November 1939	Bydgoszcz	Nazi Germany	1,200–1,400
Wawer massacre	26–27 December 1939	Wawer	Nazi Germany	107	7 shot but survived
Palmiry massacre	December 1939–June 1941	Palmiry	Nazi Germany	1,700 Poles and Jews
Katyn Forest massacre	April–May 1940	Katyn Forest	Soviet Union	22,000 Polish killed, most of them officers	21,857 confirmed by Soviet documents, about 440 of the prospective victims escaped the shootings. After intense research, today most of the victims are known name by name.
NKVD prisoner massacres in Poland	June–November 1941	Eastern Poland	Soviet Union	20,000–30,000
Szczuczyn pogrom	25–28 June 1941	Szczuczyn	Polish nationalists	300 Jews	Pogrom halted after intervention by German army in favor of the Jews. Additional 100 Jews killed in July by Poles. The Jews were subsequently murdered by the Germans.
Lviv pogroms	June–July 1941	Lviv	local crowds, Ukrainian nationalists, Germans	6,000 Jews
Radziłów pogrom	7–9 July 1941	Radziłów	Poles	600–2,000 Jews
Jedwabne pogrom	10 July 1941	Jedwabne	Poles (German military police was present, but did not intervene)	340–1,600 Jews
Massacre of Lviv professors	July 1941	Lviv	Nazi Germany	45 Polish professors
Mass murders in Tykocin	August 1941	Tykocin	Nazi Germany	some 700 Jews	Some 150 Jews managed to escape the massacre, however most were handed over to the Germans.
Święciany massacre	19–20 May 1942	Švenčionys, modern-day Lithuania (then eastern Poland)	Lithuanian Security Police	400–1,200 Poles
Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre	6 December 1942	Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka	Nazi Germany	31 Poles (including children) and 2 Jews
Naliboki massacre	8 May 1943	Nalibaki, modern-day Belarus (then eastern Poland)	Soviet NKVD and Jewish partisans	129 (including one child)
Warsaw Ghetto massacre	19 April–16 May 1943	Warsaw ghetto, Warsaw	Nazi Germany	13,000 Jews	6,000 Jews burnt to death by German forces.
Kielce cemetery massacre	23 May 1943	Jewish Cemetery, Kielce	Nazi Germany	45 Jewish children
Michniów massacre	12–13 July 1943	Michniów	Nazi Germany	about 204 Poles	including 48 children
Szczurowa massacre	3 August 1943	Szczurowa	Nazi Germany	93 Romanis
Operation Harvest Festival	3 August 1943	Lublin District	Nazi Germany	43,000 Jews of Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki
Koniuchy massacre	29 January 1944	Kaniūkai, modern-day Lithuania (then Eastern Poland)	Soviet NKVD and Jewish partisans	30–40 Poles
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Volhynian slaughter)	1943–1944	Volhynia	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	about 91,000 (±15,000) mostly Polish people	by far most of the victimes were Poles, but also Ukrainians and people of ethnic minorities were killed
Huta Pieniacka massacre	28 February 1944	Huta Pieniacka	Ukrainian nationalists	500[1]–1,200[2]
Sochy massacre	1 June 1944	Sochy	Nazi Germany	181–200 Polish civilians
Ochota massacre	4–25 August 1944	Ochota, Warsaw	Nazi Germany	10,000 Polish civilians	Including gang rape, looting and arson.
Wola massacre	5–12 August 1944	Wola, Warsaw	Nazi Germany	40,000–50,000 Poles	about 30,000 killed during the first three days
Pawłokoma massacre	3 March 1945	Pawłokoma	Poles	150–366 Ukrainians
Przyszowice massacre	26–28 January 1945	Przyszowice	Soviet Union	54–69
Dąbrówka Nowa Massacre	22 January 1945	Dąbrówka Nowa	Soviet Union	over 100
Podgaje massacre	31 January 1945	Podgaje	Nazi Germany	160–210 Polish POWs
Wierzchowiny massacre	6 June 1945	Wierzchowiny	National Armed Forces	50-196
Augustów roundup	10-25 July 1945	Suwałki and Augustów regions	Soviet Union	about 600 anti-communist	Out of 2,000 arrested by the Soviet forces, about 600 have disappeared.
Zawadka Morochowska massacres	25 January, 28 March, and 13 April 1946	Zawadka Morochowska	Polish People's Army	73 Ukrainians and Lemkos
1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW	February 1946	Bielsk and Hajnówka County	Rajs' unit	79 Belarusians
Kielce pogrom	4 July 1946	Kielce	Poles	38–42 Jews
Pacification of Wujek	16 December 1981	Wujek Coal Mine	ZOMO	9 striking miners