Mass executions in Białochów

In autumn 1939 right after German invasion onto Polish territory, paramillitary Selbstschutz units executed in Białochów Marshes about 200 civilians, inhabitants of the Grudziądz poviat (district).

The operation is one of the examples of Intelligenzaktion, the extermination operation aiming at the annihilation of the Polish elite by German invaders during WWII.

Most of the victims were farmers from Białochów, Nowa Wieś, Rogoźno, Dusocin, Lisie Kąty, Dąbrówka Królewska, Mokre, Leśniewo and Owczarki villages. Among the executeed were rev. Franciszek Kędzierski, capitain Marian Bardowski, Stanisław Kamiński, Helena Biedzińska and Pelagia Bieniak.