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| Name | ‘They vanished into thin air’ | The Augustów round-up |
| Video Uploader | Video From Polish History |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 25-06-2020 02:11:47 |
| Video Discription | During Operation Tempest, the 1944 liberation campaign by the Polish Home Army, the Home Army units had to reveal their identities which would have tragic consequences as their new Soviet occupiers began to roll in. Home Army soldiers were arrested & either sent to gulags or forcibly conscripted into the Polish People’s Army. In spring 1945 these soldiers went back underground & began reorganising themselves into new units to engage the communists. In the Suwałki county, for example, they destroyed 17 out of 18 People’s Militia bases & carried out many death sentences against collaborators. From among 14 rural municipalities created by the communists, only two managed to function. However, increasingly large numbers of UB, NKVD & Red Army personnel were being dispatched to crush the patriotic rebels. Perhaps the bloodiest of these operations took place on this day in 1945, in & around the Augustów Primeval Forest. It was conducted mainly by some 15,000 predominantly Soviet forces, including the NKVD & SMERSH, with help from local communist functionaries & informers who served as guides & interpreters during the horrific interrogations that ensued. Home Army soldiers, their families & anyone sympathetic to them were arrested at night, while in the villages, people were dragged out of their homes or fields in broad daylight. Those detained were subjected to horrible tortures such as being drowned in toilets. From among the ~2,000 arrested, around 600 people were selected – including women & teenage boys – herded onto trucks & shipped off to the USSR. They were never seen again & their whereabouts are still unknown. All we know is that they were murdered. One Home Army soldier, Witold Zurawski, remembers, ‘They encircled the entire village, & there were thousands of them… They ordered us to exit our homes… After that they took all of us, men & some women, & they raced us to the barn, where we were held for two weeks… After two weeks, the UB men arrived. They brought with them lists [with names] of people who were to be arrested. Those arrested were transported to Sztabin, & from there… They vanished into thin air.’ 7kiRjt9r6Do |
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