Częstochowa massacre
The Częstochowa massacre, also known as the Bloody Monday, was committed by the German Wehrmacht forces beginning on the 4th day of World War II in the Polish city of Częstochowa, between 4 and 6 September 1939. The shootings, beatings and plunder continued for three days in more than a dozen separate locations around the city. Approximately 1,140 Polish civilians (150 of whom were ethnically Jewish), were murdered.
| Częstochowa massacre of 1939 | |
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A monument commemorating the massacre, on the John Paul II square, near the cathedral where atrocities took place | |
| Location | Częstochowa, occupied Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°48′N 19°07′E |
| Date | 4–6 September 1939 |
| Target | Poles, Polish Jews |
Attack type | Shooting and stabbing |
| Weapons | Rifles and automatic weapons |
| Deaths | 990 Poles and 150 Jews (est.) |
| Perpetrators | Wehrmacht |
| Motive | Anti-Polish sentiment, antisemitism, Germanisation, pan-Germanism |
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