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Massacre in the Jesuit monastery on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw

1944 CE · Poland, Europe · War

Massacre in the Jesuit monastery on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw
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The massacre in the Jesuit monastery on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw was a Nazi German war crime perpetrated by members of the Waffen-SS on the second day of the Warsaw Uprising, during the World War II. On 2 August 1944 about 40 Poles were murdered and their bodies burnt in the basement of the Jesuit monastery at 61 Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw.

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