| Sochy massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of World War II | |
 Cemetery of Polish victims murdered by German Nazis during the massacre of the village of Sochy. Gate with the inscription from the Decalogue "5. Thou shalt not kill". | |
  Sochy Sochy (Poland) | |
| Location | Sochy, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°35′00″N 22°57′00″E / 50.5833°N 22.9500°E |
| Date | 1 June 1943 |
| Deaths | 181–200 killed |
| Victims | Polish civilians |
| Perpetrators |  Nazi Germany, SS |
The Sochy massacre occurred on 1 June 1943 in the village of Sochy, Lublin Voivodeship in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship during the German occupation of Poland when approximately 181–200 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by the German Ordnungspolizei and SS[1] in retaliation for the village's support for the Polish resistance movement.
- ^ Davies, Norman (2008). Boże igrzysko. Historia Polski [God's Playground. A History of Poland] (in Polish). Krakow: Znak. ISBN 978-83-240-0654-0., p. 918.