Event · Murder
Murder of resistance fighters and shelter occupants at Chmielna
Nazis discovered a shelter on Chmielna Street and shot a group of resistance fighters to death.
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... At 12 o’clock on the fourth day of the liquidation,
a group of resisters, hiding in a shelter on Chmielna
Street, was discovered and shot to death. Suddenly a
large brigade of Nazi soldiers had appeared and sur-
rounded the building with rifles and hand grenades,
reinforced by machine gunfire from cars following
them. ...Connected nodes