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Revision as of 18:29, 27 May 2007 by Lysy (talk | contribs) (Listowski's statement)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Pinsk massacre was the act of murder of 35 Jewish civilians by Polish Army in Pinsk in 1919.
On April 5th, some seventy-five Jewish civilian participant of a Zionistic meeting were taken hostage, and within an hour 35 of them were summarily shot by Polish soldiers commanded by major Łuczyński. The Poles attempted to cover the crime claiming that the victims were a group of communist insurgents preparing an uprising. Łuczyński was never punished for the crime, and instead he was promoted to the rank of general soon. Later, the Polish Group Commander General Antoni Listowski claimed that the the Polish troops were attacked by the Jewish population.
In Western press of the time, the massacre was referred to as Polish Pogrom at Pinsk. An American mission to Poland described the atrocity in the Morgenthau Report published on October 3, 1919.
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