Szczuczyn Pogrom

The Szczuczyn pogrom was a massacre in which local Polish inhabitants killed about 300–400 Jews on 27–28 June, and another 100 on 12th July. The violence was instigated by the acting mayor Stanisław Pieniak, his brother Albert, and the Gestapo agent Mieczysław Kosmowski, who organized groups of Poles to carry out the attacks.

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