Editing Piaseczno (section)

===World War II===
[[File:Pomnik powstancow warszawskich w Piasecznie.JPG|thumb|upright|left|Memorial at the site of a massacre of over 40 Polish insurgents committed by the Germans in 1944]]
[[World War II]] began for the city on 9 and 10 September 1939, when the Polish 54 [[light artillery]] [[regiment]] fought a [[skirmish]] with a German [[tank division|armored division]]. On September 10, 1939, German troops committed [[Piaseczno massacre|a massacre]] of 21 [[German atrocities committed against Polish prisoners of war|Polish prisoners of war]] in the town (see also ''[[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation]]'').<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sudoł|first=Tomasz|year=2011|title=Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach polskich we wrześniu 1939 roku|magazine=Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej|language=Polish|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|issue=8-9 (129-130)|page=80|issn=1641-9561}}</ref> Afterwards, the Germans terrorized the population, and Poles over the age of 14 were subjected to [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]].<ref name=ac16>{{cite book|last=Cubała|first=Agnieszka|year=2019|title=Piaseczno '44. Miasto i ludzie|language=Polish|location=Piaseczno|page=16}}</ref> Additionally, around 400 people were captured in [[Łapanka|roundups]] and deported to forced labour in Germany.<ref name=ac16/> The Germans also committed massacres of Poles in nearby forests as part of the ''[[German AB-Aktion in Poland|AB-Aktion]]''.<ref name=ac16/>

In 1940, during the Nazi [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|Occupation of Poland]], [[Nazi Germany|German authorities]] established a [[Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe|Jewish ghetto]] in Piaseczno (the {{ill|Piaseczno Ghetto|pl|Getto piaseczyńskie}}),<ref name="statistics">The statistical data compiled on the basis of [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/selectcity/ "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208215116/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/selectcity/ |date=2016-02-08 }} by ''[[Virtual Shtetl]]'' [[Museum of the History of the Polish Jews]] &nbsp;{{in lang|en}}, as well as [http://www.izrael.badacz.org/historia/szoa_getto.html "Getta Żydowskie," by ''Gedeon''], &nbsp;{{in lang|pl}} and "Ghetto List" by Michael Peters at www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm &nbsp;{{in lang|en}}. Accessed July 12, 2011.</ref> in order to confine its [[History of the Jews in Poland|Jewish population]] for the purpose of persecution and exploitation.<ref name="holocaustchronicle">[http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticpages/176.html "The War Against The Jews."] ''The Holocaust Chronicle,'' 2009. Chicago, Il. Accessed June 21, 2011.</ref> The ghetto was liquidated in January 1941, when all its 2,500 inhabitants were transported in cattle trucks to the [[Warsaw Ghetto]], the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of {{convert|1.3|sqmi|km2}}. From there, most victims were sent to [[Treblinka extermination camp]].<ref name="ushmm-5069">[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005069 Warsaw Ghetto], [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] (USHMM), [[Washington, D.C.]]</ref><ref name="Lukas">[[Richard C. Lukas]], ''Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust'', University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, ''The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944'', University Press of Kentucky, 1986, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lz9obsxmuW4C&dq=%22&pg=PA13 Google Print, p.13].</ref><ref name=GSP-JHEd>[[Gunnar S. Paulsson]], "The Rescue of Jews by Non-Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland," ''Journal of Holocaust Education'', Vol.7, Nos.1&2, 1998, pp.19-44. Published by Frank Cass, London.</ref><ref name="ushmm-7445">Edward Victor, [http://www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/ghetto_home_main.htm "Ghettos and Other Jewish Communities."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608060416/http://www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/ghetto_home_main.htm |date=2011-06-08 }} ''Judaica Philatelic''. Accessed June 20, 2011.</ref>

The [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]] was active, [[Education in Poland during World War II|secret Polish education]] was organized, and the present-day district of [[Zalesie Dolne]] was the location of secret meetings of both the command of the [[Grey Ranks]] and the Education Department of the [[Government Delegation for Poland]].<ref>Cubała, pp. 18–19, 28</ref>

In 1944, local Poles supported the Polish [[Warsaw Uprising]], which took place in nearby Warsaw, and some were killed by the Germans in revenge.<ref name=ac8>Cubała, p. 8</ref> During the uprising, the occupiers perpetrated two massacres of Poles within the present-day town limits, killing over 50 people.<ref name=ore>{{cite web|url=https://piaseczno.eu/obelisk-w-miejscu-rozstrzelania-przez-niemcow-w-1944-r-11-mieszkancow-dzielnicy-orezna/|title=Obelisk w miejscu rozstrzelania przez Niemców w 1944 r. 11 mieszkańców dzielnicy Orężna|website=Piaseczno.eu|access-date=7 December 2023|language=pl}}</ref><ref name=chy>{{cite web|url=https://piaseczno.eu/obelisk-w-miejscu-rozstrzelania-w-sierpniu-1944-r-40-powstancow/|title=Obelisk w miejscu rozstrzelania w sierpniu 1944 r. 40 powstańców|website=Piaseczno.eu|access-date=7 December 2023|language=pl}}</ref> From August 1944, a secret Polish hospital for wounded insurgents from Warsaw operated in the town.<ref name=ac8/> Many Poles fled from the Germans from Warsaw to Piaseczno, and were sheltered by the local population.<ref name=ac119>Cubała, pp. 119–120</ref> After the uprising, in October 1944, the German army surrounded Piaseczno and caught some 1,000 Polish refugees from Warsaw.<ref name=ac119/> The [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation]] ended on January 17, 1945, when the Polish [[1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade]] entered the town without a fight.
[[File:Fashion House Shopping Mall, Piaseczno (1).jpg|thumb|220px|The Fashion House Outlet shopping centre]]