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1945
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Antisemitism

Murder in Sokoły

In Sokoły on 17 February 1945, around 20 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were staying in a house when a patrols of Kazimierz Kamieński’s “Huzar” and Karol Gasztoft’s “Zemsta” units entered and opened fire, murdering 7 Jews, including women and children.

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