Święciany massacre

Švenčionys massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Święcianach) took place on 19-20 May 1942 when the Lithuanian Security Police murdered around 400[1] to 1,200[2] Poles in the German-occupied village of Święciany (now Švenčionys, Lithuania).

The massacre was a reprisal action for the assassination of two German officers including Joseph Beck carried out by Soviet partisans. Germans ordered arrests and execution of local Poles, with over 1,200 fatalities among the local Polish populace over the next few days. The reprisals have been carried out by the Lithuanian Security Police under the command of Jonas Maciulevičius.[3] Maciulevičius has been executed in Poland in 1950. In early 2000s Polish Institute of National Remembrance reinvestigated the crime, and concluded that no other living perpetrators of this crime remain identified and alive, closing the investigation in 2005.[1]

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References
  1. Narodowej, Instytut Pamięci. "Śledztwa zakończone wydaniem postanowienia o umorzeniu". Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  2. "PRZEGLĄD MEDIÓW - 15 marca 2005 r." (in Polish). Institute of National Remembrance. 2005-03-15. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11.
  3. Tadeusz Piotrowski (1998). Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. McFarland. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7864-0371-4.
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