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The Zamość uprising comprised World War II partisan operations, 1942–1944, by the Polish resistance against Germany's Generalplan-Ost forced expulsion of Poles from the Zamość region (Zamojszczyzna) and the region's colonization by German settlers.

Expulsion of Poles from villages in Zamość region by SS, December 1942

Monument to Polish Home Army insurgents, Biłgoraj

Home Army monument, Zamość

Partisan (military)

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A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity.

Simone Segouin, a French partisan credited with capturing 25 German soldiers in the Chartres area, poses with an MP 40 submachine gun, 23 August 1944

Yugoslav partisan Stjepan Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" moments before his execution in German-occupied Valjevo

Adolfas Ramanauskas ("Vanagas"), commander of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters