Sochy is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Zwierzyniec located within
Zamość County
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Zamość County ( pl, powiat zamojski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship.
History
During the
Sochy massacre, Germans murdered about 200 people. It happened in June 1943 during the Germanisation of the region, which caused the
Zamość Uprising
The Zamość uprising comprised World War II partisan operations, 1942–1944, by the Polish resistance (primarily the Home Army and Peasant Battalions) against Germany's '' Generalplan-Ost'' forced expulsion of Poles from the Zamość region ...
.
Polish writer
Anna Janko
Anna Janko (born Aneta Jankowska, 27 August 1957), is a Polish people, Polish poet, writer, columnist and literary critic.
Life
Aneta Jankowska was born in Rybnik, in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, 27 August 1957. She is the daughter of Teresa ...
is a daughter of one of survivors, she describes the tragedy in her book ''Mała Zagłada''.
An interview with Anna Janko
References
Sochy
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