Wygoda is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Łomża __NOTOC__ Gmina Łomża is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Łomża, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers ...

, within Łomża County,

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province ( pl, Województwo podlaskie, ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province and its territory correspond to the historic region of Podlachia. The capital and largest cit ...

, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south of Łomża and west of the regional capital

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

History

During the Polish

January Uprising The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...

, on July 21, 1863, the forest of Wygoda was the site of a Russian massacre of 50 unarmed young

Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...

, mostly students from Łomża who joined the uprising. The victims were tortured and murdered slowly in gruesome ways.''Katalog miejsc pamięci powstania styczniowego w województwie podlaskim'', p. 55 They were undressed and tied to trees, some had their eyes gouged out, bones broken or insides torn out before they died. After the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the village was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941, and then by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.

References

Villages in Łomża County Massacres of Poles Massacres committed by Russia Imperial Russian war crimes {{DEFAULTSORT:Wygoda, Łomża County