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Polish women led to execution site in a forest near Palmiry village close to Warsaw Woman in the foreground was identified after the war by her checked coat as Janina Skalska, age 38, miller's wife from Piaseczno. Palmiry, Poland, 1940. The Palmiry Massacres Palmiry has become, as Richard C. Lukas puts it, "one of the most notorious places of mass executions" in Poland. It is also one of the most famous sites of Nazi crimes in Poland. Along with the Katyn Forest, it became a symbol of the martyrdom of the Polish intelligentsia during the Second World War.  In 2011 Polish president Bronisław Komorowski said, "Palmiry is to some extent the Warsaw Katyn." Massacres of Poles had been taking place since the invasion of Poland.   Poles were the first victims of the Germans in Poland from the start of the invasion on September 1, 1939. One of the best-documented cases of these massacres took place on 20–21 June 1940, when 358 members of the Polish political, cultural, ...