Action Saybusch
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Action Saybusch was the mass expulsion of some 18,000–20,000 ethnic Polish Gorals from the territory of Żywiec Region in the area annexed to the German Province of Upper Silesia, conducted by the Wehr
Aktion Saybusch, 24 September 1940. Expelled Poles await transport at a railway crossing (in this photo, some members of the 129 families deported from the village of Dolna Sól).
Women awaiting transport during Action Saybusch, 24 September 1940
Polish families carrying allowable possessions board deportation train
Expulsion of the Goral women with children from the Żywiec County
Following the Invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, nearly a quarter of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic was annexed by Nazi Germany and placed directly under the Germ
Arthur Greiser in German occupied Poznań, 2 October 1939
Announcement board in Nazi-occupied Łódź declaring its renaming as "Litzmannstadt", 1940
Expulsion of Polish civilians, autumn 1939
Ghettoization of Jews, Litzmannstadt 1941