Modern era · 1939

Piaśnica massacres

The massacres in Piaśnica were a series of mass murders carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II, between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 in Piaśnica Wielka (Groß Piasnitz) in the Darzlubska Wilderness near Wejherowo. The exact number of people murdered is unknown, but estimates range between 12,000 and 14,000 victims.

Piaśnica massacres
Piaśnica massacres · Waldemar Engler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1939
Where
Wielka Piaśnica
Era
Modern

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