During World War II, over 1.7 million Poles were forcibly resettled from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization between 1939 and 1944.
Poles expelled in 1939 from Reichsgau Wartheland
Polish Matczak family among Poles expelled in 1939 from Sieradz in central Poland
Expulsion from Reichsgau Wartheland. Poles are led to trains under German army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the German Reich following the invasion.
Expulsion of Poles from Czerniejewo in 1939
Operation Zamość
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The ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany during World War II was carried out as part of a greater plan of forcible removal of the entire Polish populations from targeted regions of occupi
Kidnapping of Polish children during the "resettlement" operation in Zamość county
Zamość region as part of Lublin District (lower right)
Czesława Kwoka – one of many Polish children from the region murdered in Auschwitz
Expulsions of Poles from the Zamość region in December 1942