Open Access“Barwy Białe” on their Way to Aid Fighting Warsaw. The Crimes of the Home Army against the Jews
Author(s) -
Jolanta Mazurek,
Alina Skibińska
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
zagłada żydów
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-3571
pISSN - 1895-247X
DOI - 10.32927/zzsim.827
Subject(s) - officer , infantry , spanish civil war , artillery , law , battlefield , world war ii , history , criminology , ancient history , political science , sociology , archaeology
The soldiers of “Barwy Białe” partisan detachment of the Home Army established in late 1943 in the Opatów District participated in at least several murders of Jews – the murders in Goździelin, Lisów and Siekierno forests are documented. The last crime was committed on 16 or 17 August 1944, when the detachment (at that time a part of the 2nd Infantry Division) was marching to aid fighting Warsaw (as part of Operation Tempest). While stationed in Siekierno, the detachment’s commanding officer Kazimierz Olchowik “Zawisza” issued an order to execute a large group of Jews (30–58 people) living in the nearby forest after their escape from a labor camp in Skarżysko-Kamienna. After World War II most participants of the murders were tried and punished. No punishment, however, was imposed on the detachment’s commanding officer Kazimierz Olchowik, nor the sergeant, who went by the alias of “Bolrok” – the two men chiefly responsible for the murder in the Siekierno forests.