From August 5th to 12th, 1944, 40,000 to 50,000 civilians and insurgents were killed in the Wola district of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht during the Warsaw Uprising. Other massacres took place at the same time in Ochota on August 4th, perpetrated by Nazi Germans and Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) under the commandment of Bronislav Kaminski. The Center of Warsaw also witnessed the horror, Hala Mirowska was a mass murder place, between August 7 and 8th, 700 people were shot here.
The nazis wanted to stop the uprising by terrorizing the Varsovians, it didn’t work. The order came from Berlin and asked to exterminate the Varsovians. The German forces, under the commandment of the Sicherheitspolizei and the criminals of the Sturmbrigade SS Dirlewanger (among the most dangerous criminals (amnestied prisoners)) started to kill everybody in the streets of Wola, children, women, men, old peoples, sick people in hospitals, doctors or captured insurgents. The sick minds of these criminals were without any limits, they raped, murdered, tortured, and burned alive people.
Places of the largest executions during the Wola Massacre
| PLACES | NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED | date |
|---|---|---|
| ul. Wolska 55 (Fabryka „Ursus”) | around 6000 people | August 5th |
| ul. Okopowa 59 (Plac MZO naprzeciw garbarni Pfeiffera) | around 5000 people | August/September |
| Rejon ul. Górczewskiej i Moczydła | around 4500 people | August 5-8th |
| ul. Wolska 41/45 (Fabryka Franaszka) | around 4000 people | August 5-8th |
| ul. Górczewska nr 9 (Dom Zakonnic) i 15 (domy Wawelberga) | between 2000 and 3000 people | August 5-7th |
| ul. Wolska 105/109 (domy Hankiewicza) | around 2000 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 79/81 (Fabryka Kirchmajera i Marczewskiego) | around 2000 people | August 6th |
| Park Sowińskiego | around 1500 people | August 5th |
| Szpital św. Łazarza (ul. Leszno 127, Karolkowa 15, Wolska 18) | around 1250 people | August 5 and 13th |
| ul. Młynarska 2 (zajezdnia tramwajowa) | around 1000 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 120 | around 1000 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 122/124 (tereny kuźni) | around 700 people | August 5th |
| Hale Mirowskie, placyk między halami, pl. Mirowski, | around 700 people | August 7-8th |
| ul. Wolska 29 (Pałacyk Biernackich) | around 600 people | August 5-10th |
| ul. Wolska 60 (Fabryka Makaronu i Sztucznej Kawy „Bramenco”) | around 500 people | August 5th |
| ul. Staszica 15 | around 500 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 2/4 (Fundacja Staszica) | around 500 people | August 5-7th |
| ul. Górczewska (naprzeciw Szpitala Wolskiego) | several hundreds of people | August 5 or 6th |
| ul. Wolska 101 | several hundreds of people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 102/104 | several hundreds of people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 140 (cmentarz prawosławny) | several hundreds of people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 140A (tereny przy kościele św. Wawrzyńca) | several hundreds of people | August 5-8th |
| ul. Wolska 76 (okolice kościoła św. Wojciecha) | around 400 people | August 5-17th |
| ul. Wolska 129 | around 400 people | August 5 or 6th |
| ul. Żelazna 89 | around 350 people | September 23rd |
| ul. Wolska 23 | around 300 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 78 | around 300 people | August 5th |
| pl. Żelaznej Bramy | between 230 and 350 people | August 7-8th |
| ul. Chłodna 33 (gimnazjum kupieckie Roeslerów) | between 200 and 300 people | August/september |
| ul. Leszno 136 (Szpital Karola i Marii) | between 100 and 200 people | August 6th |
| ul. Magistracka i szosa w kierunku Jelonek | around 180-190 people | August 6th |
| ul. Leszno 77 (Zakład dla paralityków i nieuleczalnie chorych ss. Felicjanek) | around 170 people | August 16th |
| ul. Wolska (okolice Szpitala św. Stanisława) | around 150 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 26 | around 150 people | August 5-10th |
| ul. Okopowa (fabryka, między Żytnią a Lesznem) | around 150 people | Mid-August |
| ul. Bema 54 | around 100 people | August 9-11th |
| ul. Płocka 23 | around 100 people | August 5th |
| ul. Przechodnia 5 | around 100 people | August 6th |
| ul. Młynarska 15/17 | around 100 people | August 5th |
| ul. Młynarska – róg ul. Żytniej | around 100 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 6 (Fabryka Pasów) | around 100 people | August 5-10th |
| ul. Wolska 24 (tzw. plac zabaw „Wenecja”) | around 100 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 47 | around 100 people | First half August |
| ul. Wolska 54 (Fabryka Makaronów „Nałęcz”) | around 100 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 91 | around 100 people | August |
| ul. Wolska 143 | around 100 people | August 5th |
| ul. Żelazna nr 87 i 89 | between 70 and 190 people | August 2nd |
| ul. Wolska 147 (dom parafialny parafii prawosławnej św. Jana Klimaka) | between 30 and 100 people | August 5th |
| pl. Grzybowski | several dozens of people | August 5 or 8th |
| ul. Karolkowa 62 | several dozens of people | August 5 or 6th |
| ul. Ciepła | around 60 people | August |
| ul. Karolkowa | around 50 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 83 | around 50 people | beginning August |
| ul. Wolska 86A | around 50 people | August 4th |
| ul. Wolska 126 | around 50 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 151 (dom i fabryka rowerów A. Kamińskiego) | around 50 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 149 (sierociniec przy parafii prawosławnej św. Jana Klimaka) | around 45 people | August 5th |
| ul. Wolska 65 | around 40 people | August/September |
| ul. Krochmalna 90 | 34 people | August 5/6th |
| ul. Młynarska 10 | 30 people | August 6th |
| ul. Płocka 25 | 30 people | August 5th |
| ul. Żytnia | 30 people | beginning August |
78th years after the massacre, none one of the nazi’s war criminals responsible for the massacre of Wola district was condemned.
The main perpetrator of the Wola massacre was Oskar Dirlewanger: He is known as one of the most sadistic SS, even despised by his comrades and superiors. The commander of the SS Dirlewanger Brigade died in unclear circumstances in Germany in 1945, some reports that he was beaten to death by Poles after being imprisoned.
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