At the end of August 1944, the Germans launched an operation against the soldiers of the Home Army - "Opocznik" District, directing the Wehrmacht forces, gendarmerie and SS units to fight with partisan units. The decisive fights took place on August 31 in the vicinity of Leśniczówka Pecynka, where the unit under the command of 2nd Lt. Alfred Wieczorek, "Tatar" in the strength of about 150 men, surrounded by the German army, fought a several-hour-long fight to get out of the encirclement. On the Polish side, about 60 partisans (over 30% of the fighting unit) were killed. It was the largest guerrilla battle in the Biała Forest and one of the largest in Poland. Wounded and captured, they were shot on the spot and buried in a mass grave. Only one soldier survived the massacre - Antoni Deptuła. After the war, the bodies of the fallen Home Army soldiers were exhumed and moved to the parish cemetery in Ostrów Mazowiecka.

source: klubakradzymin.pl/akcja-burza-bitwa-pecynka

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