Fates from Poland 1939-1945
The memorial for the victims of war and the German Occupation

The Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation presents an internet platform dedicated to the commemoration of the victims and persecuted that were oppressed by the Third Reich during the Second World War – citizens of the Second Republic of Poland of all nationalities and religions. It will become one of the elements of the Deutsch-Polnisches Haus in the future, which is being built in Berlin as a place of remembrance, for educational meetings and information about the victims of terrorism during occupation times.
The Internet platform was developed as one of the components of the project “Fates of Poland 1939-1945. Remembrance locally & digitally”. It will provide information about all known and identifiable victims from Poland.
The digital platform is a “virtual memorial” for people who suffered under the repression of the Third Reich and, at the same time, a comprehensive source of information about them. The database will contribute to preserve, systematize and present the knowledge about the fate of millions of Polish citizens during the Second World War as well as popularize this knowledge on the basis of certain reports and testimonies.
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) as part of Education Agenda NS-Injustice of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and is on cooperation with German Poland Institute in Darmstadt.The Institute organizes a competition for local initiatives of the Culture of Remembrance, which is related to the fate of Polish citizens during the Second World War.
On the basis of information available in this portal, training courses are being prepared in order to ensure that the memory of this difficult period of German-Polish history remains alive and to serve as a reminder for younger generations.

Victims of the war and occupation 1939-1945

Cick on the names, learn about their fates

1943

They died on January 10th

They died on January 10th

SZLAMA ZELMAN ABRAMSON IZRAEL AJZEN ABRAM AJZENSZMIDT MAKS ALPERT NUSEN ALTAUS SIMON APELOJG JOHANN APERLINSKI HERBERT ISRAEL BALL DAVID BEREL STANISŁAW BIERNAT PIETRO BONDARCZUK MARIE BRZUCHANSKI MARIA BRZUCHAŃSKA ABRAM BUCZKO LUDWIK BUDZINSKI JAKUB CIECHANOWSKI SYMCHA DANCYGIER ADOLF DĄBKOWSKI ANTONI DEC FRANCISZEK DEMBINSKI WŁADYSŁAW DĘBEK LEONTY DIAKIW SCHOEL DISKANT FRANCISZEK DUDZIC MICHAŁ DZIEKANSKI LIPSZYC EDELBAUM JOSEL EFRON BEREK EIZENSZTAJN SACHARJASCH ELJASCH GITLA ENGLANT NACHMAN ERLIES JAKUB FAJBUSIAK JAN FIKUS MICHAIL FLORYSIAK FISZEL FRAJND NACHA GABEL FRANCISZEK GABRYELSKI STANISŁAW GADOMSKI BOGUSŁAW GŁAŻEWSKI WŁADYSŁAW GŁUSIAK LAJA GOLDBERG HENRI GOLDMAN KAZIMIERZ GORACZKA FEGA GÓRNICKI HIPOLIT GRABOWSKI ANDRZEJ GRODZKI RYWKA GROSMAN JAKUB GRYC MICHAL GUGULKA TEJWEL GUTOWSKI NYKOLA HALUSZKA ESTERA HENDLER ALTER ICKOWICZ JULIAN ISRAËL JOSEPH MAKS JUJA FELIKS KARASINSKI BERKO KATZ KATZ ABRAHAM KIRSCHNER SAMUEL KLACZKOWSKI MOJZESZ KLIGER NACHMA KOCHAN WENZEL KOMOROWSKI HERSCH KORNBAUM HERSZ KORNBAUM HERSZ KORNBAUM STEFANIA KOSCIUSZKO KRAUT JÓZEF KUNDERAK RYSZARD KWASNICA FAJGA LAKS HERSZ LIPSZYC LEOKADIA LUBISZ CHAIM ŁAPKA LEOKADIA ŁUBISZ JERZY ŁYŻBICKI LONGIN MARCINKOWSKI ABO MARKIEWICZ ANDRZEJ MĄCZKA CZESŁAW MĄCZYŃSKI CHASKEL MEILER JAKOB ISRAEL MELCARZ SZAMA MODERZEWSKI PAWEŁ MROZ JULIA MUSIAŁ JULIJA MUSIAŁ MOSZEK NACHTIGAL WŁADYSŁAW NAKIELSKI ZENON NOWAKOWSKI LEON NOWICKI FELIKS OHANNA WACŁAW OLENDER TADEUSZ ORCHOWSKI MOSZEK OSTRY JÓZEF PADUCH JÓZEF PASIERSKI JAN PASZKIEWICZ JAN PASZKIEWICZ ZALMO PAZDZIOREK LEJBA PELC IZAK PEREC WIKTOR PERZANOWSKI KAZIMIERZ PIASKOWSKI ALEKSANDER PIETKIEWICZ ALEKSANDER PIETKIEWICZ PETRO PILI LUZER POTASZCHNIK DOBA POZNIAK JOSEK PRZYGODA FRANCISZEK RADAJ JÓZEF RELIDZYŃSKI BER RUTMAN JAKUB RYŻOWY AZRYL SCHAFT JOSEF SCHAPSCHOWITZ LEIB SCHUSCHAN EDMUND SIEMIATKOWSKI WAWRZYNIEC SIKORSKI FAJWEL SKALA ANDRZEJ SKAZA TADEUSZ SOKOLINSKI CHANA SZAPIRO BEREK SZWARCKOPF IZAAK SZYMAŃSKI LUDWIK SZYMAŃSKI LUDWIK SZYMAŃSKI JÓZEF SZYMCZAK KAZIMIERZ ŚWIATEK WŁADYSŁAW ŚWIĄTKOWSKI ERNEST TABACZYNSKI TOWJA TASIEMKA KASIMIR TERELAK ADALBERT TKACZYK LEJZER TODOROWICZ JÓZEF TOMCZAK STANISŁAW TRAWITZKI BOLESŁAW TYLKOWSKI TADEUSZ TYRAŁA BOLESŁAW URBANSKI STANISŁAW URNY BRUCHA WAJNSZTAJN JANKEL WAJNSZTEJN CHAIM WAJSBROD LIPMAN WAJSMANN JÓZEF WALKOWIAK ZELMAN WARWICKI HENDLA WEISBROT JOSEF WIELKOBRODA WIKTOR WIESCHOLEK HERSCHEL WINDMAN STEFAN WOLENDER EDWARD WYPPICH JAN ZAGORSKI ZELMAN ZAITAG STANISŁAW ZAWADZKI LIBA ZIMERMAN SYMCHA ZYSMAN

1944

They died on January 10th

They died on January 10th

WLADYSL. BAJOREK FRYDMAN BARENBAUM FLORIAN BAUMERT FLORIAN BAUMERT BRONISŁAW BAZAK BRONISŁAW BAZAK STEFAN BENBENKOWSKI EDUARD BINKOWSKI ABRAM BIRENCWAJG WALTER BLIBAUM JULIA BORAK BRONISŁAW BSZAK MICHAŁ CAŁKA JAN CIEPOŁONOK JAN CIEPOTONOK MIECYSLAW CIESLICKI AURELIA CIEŚLEWICZ CZESŁAW CYBULA MOSZEK CYTRYNOWSKI MICHAŁ DALEWSKI IWAN DROGOBYCKI WŁAWYSŁAW DUSCH ITA FRENKIEL ROSA FUCHS FRANCISZEK GALINOWSKI JANINA GEPPERT JANINA GLIŃSKA RYSZARD GÓRECKI PELAAGIA GRZEGORZEWSKA PELAGIA GRZEGORZEWSKA BERNHARD JATKOWSKI CHAIM JOSELEWICZ CHANA JOSELOWICZ MARIANNA JUSTYNA CHAJA KACENELENBOGEN ALEKSANDER KALBARCZYK MARIA KESLUNSKA IZYDOR KORNFELD WŁADYSŁAWA KUCHARSKA FRANCISZKA KUCZYŃSKA MARIA KUŁAKOWSKA ICEK KUTNER JAN KWIDZYŃSKI JADWIGA LIPCZYŃSKA MARIA MAJ LUCJAN MASŁOCHA LUCJAN MASŁOCHA LUCJAN MASŁOCHA BERNARD MICHAŁKA BERNARD MICHAŁKO KAZIMIERZ MIKULSKI GENOWEFA MLODOWSKI AUGUST MROSKE MICHAEL MYKYCEJ TEOFIL OPALACH ALEKSANDER ORŁOWSKI JAN OSTASZEWSKI JOANNA PACHOJKA MARTA PAPIEŻ STANISŁAW PAWEŁEK FRANCISZEK PAWLOWSKI JERZY PLANSKI KATARZYNA POLIWKA STANISŁAWA PUSZ WLADYSL. RAKOWSKI ALEKSANDER RAUBA ALEKSANDER RAUBA ROGOWSKA WALDYSL. RUTKOWSKI JAN SARBA STANISŁAW SKOWROŃSKI JOSEF STRZELECKI NATALIA SZATKOWSKA JÓZEFA SZMACIARSKA JÓZEFA SZMACIARSKA SZYMON SZNAJDER WACŁAW SZPERBER HENRYK SZTACHELSKI JÓZEF SZYMANEK SZYFRA TARADAJKA ANTONINA TESZNER MARIA TRZESZCZKOWSKA JAKUB WACHTEL JOSEF WASILEWSKI ANNA WAŚKIEWICZ STANISŁAW WĄTROBA WACŁAW WLAZŁO WLADISLAUS WORLECKI ZUZANNA ZAKRZEWSKA STANSIL. ZAKRZEWSKI FRANCISZEK ZIELIŃSKI SZMUL ZYLBERBERG BRONISŁAW ZYSKOWSKI HENRYK ZYSKOWSKI PAWEŁ ZYSKOWSKI WACŁAW ZYSKOWSKI

1945

They died on January 10th

They died on January 10th

KAROL ANASIEWICZ KAROL ANASIEWICZ WŁADYSŁAW BALCERZAK SABINA BALKOWIAK JÖEF BALUSIAK JÖZEF BALUSIAK JÓZEF BALUSIAK JAN BANASZYK REGINA BARAŃSKA IZRAEL BARKOWICZ WILHELM BAZIAK GENOWEFA BEREZYNSKA SALEK BERLIŃSKI STANISŁAW BERNAT STANISŁAW BERNAT EUGENIUSZ BIALKOWSKI EUGENIUSZ BIAŁKOWSKI IZAAK BLAUFARB AARON BLAUSTEIN WŁADYŁSW BLERZAK WŁADYSŁAW BLERZAK EUGENIUSZ BORASIEWICZ MOJŻESZ BORNSZTAJN EUGENIUSZ BOROSIEWICZ KONSTANTY BOROWSKI KONSTANTY BOROWSKI SALOMON BRUMMER EDMUND BRZOZOWSKI DAVID BURSZTYN DAVID BURSZTYN ALEKSANDER CHRALOWSKI ANIELA CIECHOMSKA ABRAHAM CUKIER IZAAK CUKIER HILD CWANG JERZY CWIEDKOW JERZY CWIERTKOW JERZY CWIETKOW WACŁAW CZARNECKI FRANZ CZYPEWSKI JANKIEL DAUER IZRAEL DEITELZWEIG ALEKSANDRA DERKACZ TADEUSZ DOBRZELAK FRANZ DORNA RYSZARD DOROSZKO RICHARD DRODSDOVSKI RICHARD DROZDOVSKY MICHAEL DRYANSKI MIECZYSŁAW DUBAS ALBERT DUJAK HENRYK DUNIEWICZ KAZIMIERZ DUPCZYNSKI JAKÓB DZIAŁOSZYŃSKI JAKÓB EIZENBERG JAN FEDEROWICZ NOJACH FEINKUCHEN JÓZEF FELDMAN JAKÓB FINKELSTEIN NAFTALI FLIDERBAUM HILEL FRÄNKEL MARIAN FRENZEL WERONIKA FRUBA WERONIKA FRUBA BRONISŁAW GAJB BRONISŁAW GAŁAWSKI WARISSEN GARBOTSCHKOWA GUSTAV GEMEINER SZLAMA GERSZONOWICZ IZRAEL GERTLER FRANCISZEK GERYNG OSKAR GINZBERG CHIL GLASS RUBIN GLECER SIMON GLIKSMANN JAKOB GLOGOWSKI JAN GODLEWSKI NUSEN GOLDBERG MOZES GOLDMAN MOZES GOLDMANN ROZA GOLDSCHMIED EMANUEL GORNY WACŁAW GREINERT JÓZEF GRONCZEWSKI FELIX GRONKOWSKA JAKÓB GROSMAN GEORG GRÜNFELD LEON GRÜNSTEIN JAKÓB IZAAK GRYNBAUM LAJZER GRYNBERG ALFREDA GRZESKIEWICZ SÜSSEL HAAR JÓZEF HAJDUK BRUNO HELLER SZMUL HERC JUDA HERCBERG CHIL HERCHORN IZAK HERSCHDÖRFER MADZIA HERSZTERG SENDER HODYS IZRAEL HOFMANN ALTER HOLENDER MIECZYSŁAW HUFNAGEL MAJER ICKOWICZ MOJSZE ISBICKI JANINA JAGODZINSKA JOSEF JASINSKI JÓZEF JASINSKI JÓZEF JASIŃSKI MIECZYSŁAW JASKULOWSKI MIECZYSŁAW JASKUŁOWSKI ALEKSANDER JASTRZĘBSKI ALEKSANDER JASTRZĘBSKI PINCHOS JOSKOWICZ ABRAM JRADSTEIN SERGIEJ JURCZENKO JEHUDA KAMELGERN MARIA KARASINSKA KARMILEWICZ KALMAN KATUSZEWSKI WŁADYSŁAW KAZIMIERCZUK JÓZEF KESTENBERG JÓZEF KINRUS LAJB KLAJMAN SYMON KLAPHOLZ SZYMON KLAPPHOLTZ MOZES KLARMAN PAWEŁ KLEMENTYNOWSKI JAN KLICH JOSEF KLIMOZAK ANTANAS KLUKINKAS WŁADYSŁAW KLUSKA BENJAMIN KONSKIER MIHALINA KORAL IZAAK KORENFELD KORNULEWICZ HENRYK KOWALEWSKI HENRYK KOWALEWSKI KAZIMIERZ KOWALSKI FEIGA KOZAK WLADYSLAV KOZBIAL JÓZEF KOZŁOWSKI FEIGA KRAKOVSKA MARIAN KRAMARCZYK IZAAK KRELL BOLESŁAW KROL BOLESŁAW KRÓL JÓZEF KRÓLCZYK LUDWIK KUBOSZEK PIOTR KUCHALSKI PIOTR KUCHALSKI CZESLAW KULIKOWSKI GUTA KÜNSTLER MICHAEL KÜNSTLER MICHAEL KÜNSTLER MICHAL KÜNSTLER EUGENIA KUNZ MARIA KURZYNSKA MICHAEL KÜSTLER ZYZMAN LAIZEROWICZ MECHEL LAMMER ELIASZ LANDAU MOJŻESZ LANDAU MOJŻESZ LASKIER WACŁAW LECKI HERSZ LEFKOWICZ IZAAK LEIZEROWICZ JÓZEF LEWENTAL SENDER LEWI BORUCH LICHTENSTEIN PIOTR LINART PIOTR LINART ROMAN LIPINSKI JÓZEF LOJSZCZYK BENNO LÖWENBERG BENNO LÖWENBERG MARILA LUCKA MARIA LUCZAK SZYMON LUFT KAZIMIERZ ŁAWRYNOWICZ JÓZEF ŁOJSZCZYK JAN MADEJ SZLOMA MAJROWICZ JÓZEF MAKAREWICZ BOLESŁAW MALICONSKI SZCZEPAN MALINOWSKI JÓZEF MALISZEWSKI JÓZEF MARAKIEWICZ BOLESŁAW MARKAWI JÓZEF MARKIEWICZ JÓZEF MARKIEWICZ FRANCISZEK MARSZALEK PAWEŁ MARTYBIUK PAWEŁ MARTYNIUK OTTO MAY OTTO MAY RUDOLF MAZUR RUDOLF MAZUR FRANCISZEK MĘDRYCHOWSKI FRANCISZEK MĘDRYCHOWSKI JÓZEF MIKOLAJEWICZ SZMIL MILIONER FISZEL MINC FISZEL MINC MIECZYSLAW MISKURSKI WŁADYSŁAW MŁYNARCZYK SIMON MOSKOWICZ KAROL MUSZKO KAROL MUSZKO AARON NAGEL PIOTR NIEZGODA JAN NOGA MIACHAEL NOWACKI HELENA NOWAK JOHANN NOWAK JAN OLBRICH ICEK OPENHAJM MOJŻESZ ORDYNANS STANISŁAW OSIADASZ JOACHA PASTERNAK ROLAND PATYNOWSKI ROLAND PATYNOWSKI ROLAND PATYNOWSKI FAJGA PELMANN EVA PENDZSEL JAN PIELAK JAN PIELAK JÓZEF PIETRZAK JÓZEF PIETRZAK JÓZEF PIETRZAK LUDWIK PINGOT KLARA PODHORZER STANISŁAW POPOWSKI KAZIMIERA PORZEKAJLO GREGOR POSTRZYGACZ GRZEGORZ POSTRZYGACZ JAN POTULSKI JAKÓB PRINX IZAAK PRUSYTZEY STEFAN PRZENICZNY JÓZEF PRZYBYLSKI DINA PSZENICA STANISŁAW RAK STANISŁAW RAK ABRAHAM RANG ABRAM REICHERT WLADYSLAW REKAWEK WLADYSLAW REKAWEK BENJAMIN RESCHKE WŁADYSŁAW RĘKAWEK ALEKSANDER ROGOWSKI JÓZEF ROLNICKI ABRAHAM ROMANDEL WALENTY ROMANENKO IZRAEL ROSENBERG LAJA ROSENBERG BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT ABRAHAM ROSENZWEIG WŁADYSŁAW ROSZEWSKI DAWID ROZENBERG JERZY ROZENBLUM GRZEGORZ RUDOLF SZYJE RUSSAK WŁADYSŁAW RYBCZYŃSKI ROBERT RYCHERT ROBERT RYCHERT MARIAN RZETKOWSKI PERETZ SALOMONCZYK TADEUSZ SANKOWSKI WIKTOR SCHAITEWITSCH ANNA SCHWENTALSKA LUDWIK SEGET LUDWIK SEGET LEIB SEIDENBERG KAZIMIERZ SEKULSKI KAZIMIERZ SEKULSKI CHIL SENDEL BRONISLAW SEREDZYNSKI FAJWEL SIERPIŃSKI JÓZEF SIKORA JÓZEF SILBERBERG FEIWISZ SILBERMAN CHAJA SILBERMANN HERSCH SILBERSTEIN HERSCH SILBERSTEIN SABA SILBERSTEIN ZOFIA SIOTA SZLAMA SKÓRKA WŁADYSŁAW SŁOMCZYŃSKI IZRAEL SOSNOWSKI SZAJA SOSNOWSKI JÓZEF SPIRA WILHELM STADLER WŁADYSŁAW STEC JÓZEF STROIK FRANCISZEK STROMINSKI JOSEF SUCHODOLSKI JÖZEF SUCHODOLSKI JÓZEF SUCHORSKI ANTONI SWIDERSKI MOJŻESZ SZACHER LEIB SZALDAJEWSKI ABRAHAM SZARF DAWID SZPERLING STANISLAW SZULC JAN SZULCZEWSKI JAN SZULCZEWSKI AARON SZWEDZINEWICZ WIKTOR SZYBUTOWICZ WIKTOR SZYBUTOWICZ KAZIMIERZ SZYMCZAK KAZIMIERZ SZYMCZAK STANISŁAW ŚWIDERSKI KOPEL TAJSCHER MAIER TAJTEL MORDKA TAUBE LUCJAN TOMASZEWSKI CHAIM TRZCINOW MOCECK URBACH MOSZEK URBACH MOZCECK URBACH SZMUL VOGEL ABRAHAM WALDMAN JAKOB WASERMAN JAKOB WASERMAN ALEKSANDRA WASINA STANISŁAW WDOWCZYK STANISŁAW WDOWZCYK CHAIM WEINBERGER IDEL WEINBERGER EUGENIUSZ WICINSKI ZYGMUND WIESENTHAL ZYGMUND WIESENTHAL DAWID WISCHNIEWSKI ANTONI WISNIEWSKI ANTONI WISNIEWSKI SZMUL WITKOWSKI SZMUL WITKOWSKI RIWEN WITMAN KAZIMIERZ WOJCZUK KAZIMIERZ WOJCZUK BOGUSŁAW WOJDA BOGUSŁAW WOJDA SZMUL WOLRAUCH JERZY WOŁOWSKI JERZY WOŁOWSKI EUGENIUSZ WÓJCICKI ALEXANDER WROBEL KUBA WURZELMAN BER ZALEBERG WŁADYSŁAW ZESZCZEWSKI WLADYMIR ZIELINSKI FELIKS ZIEMSKI FELIKS ZIEMSKI CHAIM ZŁOTOGÓRSKI HENRYK ZÓŁTKIER STANISLAWA ZROSTOWSKA ICEK ZYLBER DAWID ZYLBERSZTAJN

Fates from Poland 1939-1945

POWs in the Second World War
Jeńcy polscy, wrzesień 1939 (IPN)

Around 66,000 Polish soldiers were killed in the fighting in September 1939 whilst 134000 were wounded and 420000 were captured.

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Forced labour

One of the main political goals of the Third Reich was the incorporation of conquered territories into the economic system of Germany and to exploit them to the maximum possible

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Concentration camps

The first concentration camp to be set up was Dachau in March 1933 and all future camps followed this model. Dachau was created on the basis of an order of Heinrich Himmler of 21 March 1933.

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Prison camps and prisons

In occupied Poland, the Germans introduced the same legal procedures as existed in the Third Reich. This included the German legal code, Nuremburg laws and military law.

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Ghettos

As soon as Hitler came to power in 1933, measures were taken to discriminate against those whom the Nazis considered to be ‘subhumans’. This included Jews, Gypsies and later Slavs.

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Germanisation of Polish children

The German occupying authorities quickly concluded that it would not be sufficient just to expel the locals and introduce German settlers in areas annexed by the Third Reich.

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Expulsion of Poles

The main objective of the policy of Germanisation was to expulse other races from the occupied territories and to settle Germans in their place.

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Everyday life under occupatition

Poles began a new stage of their lives on 1 September 1939. The war and five years of occupation changed the lives of everyone. At the beginning they did not know what to expect.

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Events

in the territories annexed to the Third Reich

1 IX 1939

Air raid on Wieluń (over a thousand casualties)

IX 1939 – IV 1940

"Intelligenzaktion" - Action of the physical destruction of the Polish intelligentsia and the Polish upper class in the territory of occupied Poland

IX-XII 1939

in the internment camp Karlshof (Karolewo) between 4 and 10 thousand people were murdered

IX 1939 - I 1940

Series of executions in Szpęgawsk Forest near Starogard Gdański (between 5 and 7 thousand people were murdered)

28 IX 1939

Zakroczym: murder of 500 POWs and 100 townspeople by the Wehrmacht

8 X 1939

Hitler's decree on the incorporation of the northern and western regions of Poland into the German Reich

X 1939 – IV 1940

Series of executions in the Piaśnica Forest near Wejherowo (12 to 14 thousand people were murdered) and in Mniszek near Świecie (10 thousand people were murdered)

X 1939 – III 1941

Relocation of 120 to 170 thousand persons of Polish and Jewish origin from Pomerania to the GG

XI 1939

the first executions in Lućmierz Forest near Zgierz (about 30 thousand people were murdered there)

XII 1939 – III 1941

Relocation of over 280 thousand people from Greater Poland to the GG

XII 1939

Beginning of the relocations from the administrative district of Litzmannstadt (by 1945 444 thousand persons of Polish nationality had been relocated)

II 1940

Beginning of the relocations from the administrative district of Zichenau (approx. 25 thousand people were relocated)

II 1940

Establishment of the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt)

Wiosna 1940

"Intelligenzaktion" Silesia - Murder of approx. 2 thousand Poles in Silesia

27 IV 1940

Decision on the establishment of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp

14 VI 1940

the first transport of prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp

22 IX 1940 – 12 XII 1940

Aktion Saybusch - resettlement of 50 thousand Poles from the Żywiec region

III 1941

Introduction of the German National List

VIII 1941

the first killings with the use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz

X 1941

Murder of about 3 thousand Jews from the area of Konin

7 XII 1941

Establishment of the extermination camp in Kulmhof (about 320 thousand Jews were murdered there)

III 1942

the first transports of Jews from France to the Auschwitz concentration camp

Lato 1942

Establishment of a network of about 30 "Polish camps" for Poles resettled from Silesia

1 XII 1942

Establishment of the Concentration Camp for Polish Children in Łódź (Litzmannstadt)

X-XI 1943

Transport of Jews from Italy to Auschwitz Concentration Camp

18 I 1945

Beginning of the "death march" of the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp

General Government

V-VII 1940

Implementation of the "AB Action" by the Germans, during which 6,500 Poles were murdered - among them about 3,500 representatives of the Polish political and intellectual elites and about 3,000 criminals

14 VIII 1940

the first transport of Warsaw citizens to Auschwitz

2 X 1940

Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto

1 XII 1940

Convening of labor battalions (Baudienst)

IV 1941

the number of persons imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto reached the highest level - 450.000

Wiosna 1942

Beginning of "Aktion Reinhardt" - Mass deportations of Jews to extermination camps (murder of about 2 million people)

17 III 1942

Establishment of the extermination camp in Belzec

IV 1942

Establishment of the extermination camp in Sobibor

13 VII 1942

Murder of about 1800 Jews in Józefów near Biłgoraj

23 VII 1942

Establishment of the extermination camp in Treblinka (about 870 thousand Jews were murdered there)

XI 1942–VIII 1943

Resettlement action in the Zamość region (over 100 thousand people were affected, including 30 thousand children)

Jesień 1942–wiosna 1943

Intensification of street raids and deportations for forced labour

19 IV 1943

Outbreak of the uprising in the Ghetto of Warsaw

VI 1943–VIII 1943

"Pacification" action in the Zamość region

14 X 1943

Prisoner uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp

2 II 1944

"Pacification" of the village Borów by the Germans (about 1200 people were murdered)

22 VII 1944

Murder of approx. 200 prisoners of Lublin Castle by the Germans

1 VIII 1944

Outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising

VIII 1944

Murder of approximately 10 thousand inhabitants of Warsaw’s Ochota district and more than 40 thousand inhabitants of Warsaw’s Wola district by the Germans and their allies

VIII-X 1944

Relocation of approx. 500 thousand inhabitants of Warsaw and approx. 100 thousand inhabitants of localities in the vicinity of Warsaw

9 X 1944

Beginning of planned destruction of Warsaw by the Germans