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When Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 invaded Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 in 1939, the town of Wasosz (Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland in north-eastern Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Bialystok Voivodeship and Lomza Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwalki Voivodeship, pursuant to the Poland Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998....
) was conquered by the second week of war. At the end of September 1939, the area was transferred to Soviet control, but on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht

Wehrmacht was the name of the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe ....
 re-entered the town. At this point, there were between 400 and 600 Jews in Wasosz.

The advancing German combat troops soon left the town. In the second week of the German occupation, a Polish militia was formed in Wasosz, which consisted of local thugs.






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When Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 invaded Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 in 1939, the town of Wasosz (Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland in north-eastern Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Bialystok Voivodeship and Lomza Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwalki Voivodeship, pursuant to the Poland Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998....
) was conquered by the second week of war. At the end of September 1939, the area was transferred to Soviet control, but on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht

Wehrmacht was the name of the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe ....
 re-entered the town. At this point, there were between 400 and 600 Jews in Wasosz.

The advancing German combat troops soon left the town. In the second week of the German occupation, a Polish militia was formed in Wasosz, which consisted of local thugs. On July 5, 1941, this unit surrounded Wasosz to prevent Jews from escaping, and a house to house pogrom began. The Jewish inhabitants of Wasosz were brutally beaten and murdered, women were raped, and Jewish homes were looted. The corpses of the victims were later buried in a mass grave in a field adjacent to town.

On July 6, 1941, Jewish refugees, who managed to escape the pogrom, arrived to the neighbouring hamlet of Radzilów
Radzilów

Radzil?w is a village in Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Radzil?w. It lies approximately south of Grajewo and north-west of the regional capital Bialystok....
, but the next day pogrom broke out there as well, and 800 local and refugee Jews were killed. Later, Germans found that only fifteen Jews were left alive in Wasosz. The pogrom survivors were left in Wasosz under the supervision of the local gendarmerie until July 1, 1942, and were used for forced labour purposes. On November 2, 1942, they were moved to the Bogosza transit camp, and from there to Auschwitz and Treblinka extermination camps.

The crimes committed at Wasosz are being investigated by Institute of National Remembrance
Institute of National Remembrance

Institute of National Remembrance ? Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish government-affiliated research institute with lustration prerogatives and prosecution powers founded by specific Polish law....
 of Poland.

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