Michniów massacre
1943 CE.
Shown on the map at 51.008°, 20.844°.
The Michniów massacre is a massacre that occurred on 12–13 July 1943 in the village of Michniów during the German occupation of Poland when approximately 204 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by German Ordnungspolizei and Schutzstaffel. During World War II, the inhabitants of Michniów actively cooperated with the Polish resistance movement, in particular with the Świętokrzyskie Home Army units commanded by lieutenant Jan Piwnik, pseudonym "Ponury" ("Grim"), a cichociemny ("Silent Unseen" special-operations paratroopers of the Polish Army in exile in SOE). On July 12, 1943, a German military unit partially burned the village and murdered over 100 inhabitants. In retaliation that same night, Piwnik's partisans attacked the express train Kraków-Warsaw in the area of Podłazie, Skarżysko County, killing or injuring at least a dozen Germans. The next day, German Ordnungspolizei returned to Michniów, completely burning the village and murdering almost all Poles who lived there.
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