1288 - Holy Cross church founded by High Duke of Poland
Henryk IV Probus.[7]
1290 - Death and burial of
Henryk IV Probus in the Holy Cross church, that was still under construction,[7] as the second Polish monarch to be buried in Wrocław.
5 May: Convention of Polish activists from the Prussian and Austrian partitions of Poland.[19]
9 May–8 July: Stay of Polish national poet
Juliusz Słowacki, during which he met his mother for the first time in nearly 20 years and the last time.[20]
1931 - Stahlheim rally, at which its German activists declared their disapproval of the interwar German-Polish order and expressed
irredentist claims towards Poland and Lithuania.[33]
September: Mass arrests of Polish activists, Polish organizations banned.[32]
1940
Ausländer-Auffanglagerforced labour camp established by the Germans; its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Frenchmen, Czechs, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, etc. (mostly men, but also women and children)[38]
Rheinmettal–Borsig forced labour camp established by the Germans; its prisoners were mostly Poles (men and women), but also Czechs (men and women),
French POWs,
Soviet POWs and Jews.[39]
Forced labour camp in Sołtysowice established by the Germans; it housed between 4,000 and 10,000 prisoners, mostly Poles, but also Czechs, Ukrainians, Yugoslavs, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Dutchmen and Russians.[40]
20 April: Forced labour camp for Jewish men established by the Germans in the present-day district of Jerzmanowo.[41]
September: Forced labour camp for Jews established by the Germans in Żerniki.[42]
15 February: Forced labour camp for Jewish men in Jerzmanowo dissolved.[41]
15 July: Execution of
Leon Kmiotek [
pl], commander of the Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich (Military Organization of the Western Lands) Polish resistance organization by the Germans.[43]
August: AL Breslau-Lissasubcamp of the
Gross-Rosen concentration camp established by the Germans, its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Frenchmen, Czechs, Yugoslavs.[44]
1943
April 23: Polish Zagra-Lin attacks Nazi German troop transport.
Dulag 410 transit camp for
Allied prisoners of war established by the Germans.[45]
1944
March: Forced labour camp for Jews in Żerniki dissolved.[42]
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