Brzostowica Mała massacre

The Second World War - Crimes - Poland

After the USSR's aggression against Poland, on September 17, 1939, a communist militia composed of Jews and Belarusians massacred the local Polish population in the village of Brzostowica Mała (near Grodno). The exact date of the crime is unknown, only that it happened in September 1939.

It is assumed that about 50 people living at the Brzostowica Mała estate died then, among others:
- count Antoni Wołkowicki with his wife Ludwika,
- his brother-in-law, Lt. Col. Eng. Zygmunt Wojnicz-Sianożęcki,
- the commune head,
- secretary of the commune,
- commune cashier,
- local postman,
- teacher,
- Eng. Witold Boretti, owner of the Parchimowce estate,
- Eng. Joachim Leśniewicz, owner of the Zajkowszczyzna estate.

The action was led by a special Revolutionary Committee in Brzostowica Wielka, chaired by Motyl Żak. The murder was carried out by a gang of Jews and Belarusians, led by a Jewish trader, Zusko Ajzik. The killings were particularly brutal - the Wołkowicki family had their hands tied with wire, were forced to eat lime, and then were buried alive. The murders had an ethnic and class background, and their aim was to eliminate Polish intelligentsia and officials.

An investigation in this case was conducted in 2001–2005 by the Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok, qualifying the crime on the basis of the existing premises as an act of genocide committed in the interest and inspired by the USSR authorities.

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