Tuesday 20 March 2018

Executions in the Kruk Forest near Skrzyszów


In between 1941-1942 Gestapo, SS and Hitler's police functionaries executed on the slopes of St. Martin Mountain (Góra Św. Marcina) in the Kruk Forest near Skrzyszów 400 prisoners transported from Tarnów prison. Corpses remained in mass graves. On 2 October 1945 5 of such mass execution pits were unveiled. It is said that on this place residents of Kraków, Tarnów, Częstochowa, Bydgoszcz, Lichwin and Borzęcin were killed.


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