On 1st June 1943 at 5 a.m. German troops and aircrafts came into Sochy village (Lublin region) in order to leave no one alive. 88 houses are reported to be burnt and 183 persons executed.
Numbers may be much higher as there were left very few people to count the exact numer of the victims. Only one house was left standing. Mostly kids survived, whose eyes seem to explain the whole terror of what was done to them. It would have been great if they had received some good explanation why their families were shattered by the turmoils of the war. Why their little worlds got anihilated...
A precise and moving account of the events is given in the book by Anna Janko "Mała Zagłada" (not translated yet (eng. "An Unknown Anihilation"), whose mother (9 at the time) was one of the surviving kids.
Sochy are one of the four most affected villages in terms of German extermination policy. The other three are: Oradour-sur-Glane (Francja), Mazinote (Włochy) i Lidice (Czechy).
- Anna Janko "Mała Zagłada", Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2015
- https://dorzeczy.pl/kraj/5371/Jas-nie-wybaczyl.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacification_actions_in_German-occupied_Poland
- https://www.polskieradio.pl/39/156/Artykul/871267,Niemcy-nie-mieli-litosci-podczas-pacyfikacji-Zamojszczyzny
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