Massacre in Dynów

Massacre in Dynów
Part of German occupation of Poland and World War II
LocationDynów, German-occupied Poland
DateSeptember 15, 1939 (1939-09-15)–September 28, 1939; 85 years ago (1939-09-28)
Attack type
Mass shooting, death by burning
Deaths170-200
PerpetratorNazi Germany
MotiveAntisemitism, expansionism

The Dynów massacre was a massacre committed by German Wehrmacht, Gestapo and Einsatzkommando soldiers in Dynów during the German Invasion of Poland in September 1939, on the first day of Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), in which some 170–200 Jewish civilians from the town were murdered.

150 Jews were mass murdered by machine guns after being taken away from the town on trucks. 50 Jews were burned alive in their prayer house.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ Szymon Datner "55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce" page 392
  2. ^ Jürgen Matthäus; Jochen Böhler; Klaus-Michael Mallmann (18 April 2014). War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-1-4422-3142-9.
  3. ^ Richard J. Evans (19 March 2009). The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-101-02230-6.
  4. ^ Timothy Snyder (2 October 2012). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-465-03297-6.


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