Murder in Drzewica

The Second World War - Crimes - Poland

On the night of January 22-23, 1943, a group of GLPeople’s Guard (GL, polish: Gwardia Ludowa) – an underground communist armed organization, created by the communist Polish Workers’ Party in German-occupied Poland, sponsored by the Soviet Union, and aimed to armed fight against the German occupier. ("Lions" unit) consisting mostly of Jewish refugees from ghettos, under the command of Izrael Ajzenman, launched an attack on the inhabitants of the town of Drzewica near Opoczno, 50 km from Radom. Surprised while sleeping, they were then murdered in cold blood.

With a list of "fascists" prepared in advance, the attackers attacked Gerlach's tableware factory. There they forced its owner Antoni Kobylański, a National PartyNational Party (SN, polish: Stronnictwo Narodowe) – polish political party, created in October 1928, the task of which was to conduct underground political activity of the national camp and fight communist influence in Poland. activist and a NOWNational Military Organization (NOW, polish: Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa) – an underground military organization established by the Supreme Court of the Second World War.-AKHome Army (AK, polish: Armia Krajowa) – the clandestine armed forces of the Polish Underground State during World War II. soldier to open the cash register, and then murdered him.

They murdered a total of 11 people, including seven supporters and members of the underground. Here is how this event was reported in the report of "Antiquity", the anti-communist unit at the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Home Army Headquarters:

Having taken control of the security posts, part of the gang burst into the Kobylański knife factory. Its owner, August Kobylański, was taken to the factory, he was ordered to open a cash register, and then he was murdered, apart from him, 4 officials and 3 factory workers, a pharmacist, 11 people in total from the vicinity of the factory, were murdered. Kobylański's apartment was plundered for several hours and completely robbed. The gang was composed of Jews heavily armed with grenades and sub-machine guns, and was led by a Jewish woman. […] The gang got out without suffering any losses.

The aforementioned Jewish woman who commanded part of the group robbing the presbytery was Zofia Jamajka, a PPRPolish Workers' Party (PPR, polish: Polska Partia Robotnicza) - a Polish communist party operating from 1942 to 1948 in Warsaw during the German occupation by Polish communists from the so-called Initiative Group (parachuted by the Soviet Air Force in 1941) by merging several communist organisations. From 1944, the party ruled in Poland as a non-sovereign state, under the domination of the USSR. activist from Warsaw.

The victims associated with the Polish underground were:
- August Kobylański - owner of the Gerlach factory, SN activist and NOW-AK soldier
- Stanisław Makomaski - pharmacist, activist of the Catholic Action
- Józef Staszewski - a soldier of the NSZNational Armed Forces (NSZ, polish: Narodowe Siły Zbrojne) – Polish underground military organization of the national camp, operating in the years 1942–1947, with around 75,000 people at its peak. During the German occupation, it fought with the Germans and fought against Polish communist formations: the People’s Guard, the People’s Army, as well as the Soviet partisans and robber gangs.
- Zdzisław Pierściński - a soldier of the National Armed Forces
- Edward Suskiewicz - NSZ soldier
- Stanisław Suskiewicz - a soldier of the National Armed Forces
- Józef Suskiewicz - a soldier of the NSZ

August Kobylański

Some of the victims were killed by shooting in the back of the head, the rest were murdered by smashing their heads with the butts and ripping their insides with a bayonet. After the corpses were robbed of their belongings and belongings, the group withdrew from the town.

A dozen other people on the liquidation list managed to escape or hide. After the plunder was over, the group withdrew from town.

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