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Participation of SS Cavalry in Mass Crimes Committed against Jews in Polesie in the Summer of 1941
Grzegorz Berendt
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6364-2199
Uniwersytet Gdański / Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku / Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
Remembrance and Justice, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2020), pages: 382-401
Publication date: 2020-06-30
https://doi.org/10.48261/pis203517
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Abstract
In August 1941, two SS cavalry regiments were sent into action in the territory of the former Polesie province of Poland. At that time, the area was under the control of the German Army. The nominal aim of the operation was to fight against the remaining Red Army troops and the first groups of Soviet partisans. In fact, though, at the order of Heinrich Himmler, for two weeks SS units were engaged in exterminating the local Jewish population. In Chomsk, Hencewicz, Motol, Święta Wola and Telechany, all Jews captured were murdered. In Dawidgródek, Janów Poleski, Łuciniec, Pińsk and Pohost Zahorodzki, many or all of the male Jews above the age of 15 detained were murdered. This genocidal operation resulted in the deaths of at least 15,000 people. It was unprecedented in that it involved the extermination of the entire Jewish population of several locations by regular front-line units.
Keywords
Holocaust • kawaleria SS • Polesie • sierpień 1941 r. • SS cavalry • August 1941 • Holocaust • SS
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