Warsaw – Ochota
When the Warsaw uprising broke out August 1, 1944, the civilian population was brutally affected. The Germans were determined to stifle the uprising in its infancy and one method was to punish civilians in a very brutal way. During the uprising, the Germans and their collaborators, carried out several large and small massacres of civilians. Such a massacre took place between 4 – 25 August 1944, when German collaborators committed numerous murders, robberies, lootings, rapes and arson in Warsaw’s Ochota district. The most serious crimes were committed at a cancer hospital and in Zieleniak prison camp. The perpetrators came from the Russian voluntary unit, RONA (Russian national liberation army) under the command of Bronislav Kaminski. About 10,000 civilians were killed in what has been called the Ochota massacre.
Current status: Monument (2015).
Location: 52°13'20.13"N 20°59'16.98"E
Get there: Bus.
Follow up in books: Davies, Norman: Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004).
The Massacre did not take place in one place, but it was carried out in several different places and many times purely spontaneously. In several of these places there are either monuments or memorials, but far from all places are memorialized.