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Wawer massacre

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The Wawer massacre refers to the execution of 107 Polish civilians on the night of 26 to 27 December 1939 by the German occupiers of Wawer (at the time a suburb and currently a neighbourhood of Warsaw), Poland. The execution was a response to the killing of two German soldiers in a shootout by two petty criminals. An order to arrest at random any men inhabiting Wawer and the neighboring Anin between the ages of 16 and 70 was given and, as a result, 120 men, who were unrelated to the shootout, were gathered, and a show trial was hastily organized. 114 were declared "guilty" and sentenced to death, the others were spared to bury the dead. In total, 107 were killed and 7 survived, as they withstood the gunfire and were not finished off later. It is considered to be one of the first large scale massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland.

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Wawer massacre
Kościuszkowców, Warsaw Wawer

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Kościuszkowców
04-570 Warsaw, Wawer
Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Czecha Street, Warsaw
Czecha Street, Warsaw

Bronisława Czecha Street (Polish: Ulica Bronisława Czecha) is located in Warsaw, Poland. Its dual carriageway, starts in the district of Wawer continuing from Płowiecka street on a viaduct over PKP rail line 7 north of Warszawa Wawer railway station, runs east mostly through the forest of the Masovian Landscape Park to the border between Wawer and Wesoła were from an intersection with a residential street called Wawerska the main road continues as Trakt Brzeski. Its path forms the boundary between the neighborhoods of Marysin Wawerski to the north and Anin to the south. It is the main road exiting Warsaw towards the east, and one of three roads connecting Wesoła with the rest of Warsaw together with Korkowa Street and Cyrulików Street. Together with Grochowska, Płowiecka and Trakt Breszki the street forms part of the 19th century Brześć Chaussee (Polish: Szosa Brzeska), a 200 kilometer road from the Grochów toll house at the Lubomirski Ramparts in Praga to Brześć Litewski (today Bieraście, Belarus), laid out and paved along a historic tract by Fr. Stanisław Staszic by 1823. Prior to the opening of the S2 expressway, which serves as the southern bypass of Warsaw, the street belonged to the national road network as part of DK 2 and to European route E30. Upon its rerouting on December 20, 2021, the old course was downgraded to a Voivodeship road marked as DW 628. The patron of the street is Bronisław Czech, a Polish skier and Olympian.