The Kitów massacre was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by the Ordnungspolizei and Schutzstaffel in the village of Kitów within occupied Poland. On December 11, 1942, a minimum of 164 inhabitants of Kitów, including numerous women and children, were killed in a mass execution. This massacre was part of the ethnic cleansing of the Zamość region and was additionally considered retaliation for a prior attack by Polish partisans on the village of Nawóz, which had been subjected to colonization by ethnic German settlers.
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