found: Work cat: The Augustów roundup of July 1945, 2022:CIP galley (the Augustów Roundup; occurred in post--World War II Poland; sometimes referred to as the "July Roundup", "Little Katyń" or "Another Katyń"; Obława Augustowska; It was carried out by regular troops of the Red Army and Internal Troops of the 62nd Division of the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), aided by members of the UB (Polish secret police), MO (Citizens' Militia), and 160 Polish soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Praga District of Warsaw; These forces, (approximately 45,000), raided the Augustów Primeval Forest and its surroundings to carry out an extensive pacification; Over 7,000 people suspected of involvement in the Polish Anti-Communist Resistance were imprisoned in dozens of places in Augustów, Suwałki, Sejny, and Sokółka counties; the detainees were subjected to interrogation, beating, and torture; Only some of those arrested during the Roundup returned home; Until now, it has been assumed that the number of Augustów Roundup victims was 592, however, recent research, especially the release of some decoded cryptograms by Nikita Petrov of the Association "Memorial" in Moscow, the number of victims is now estimated at 2,000) (DLC)2022023290
found: Warsaw Institute Review, 31 August 2020, viewed online via Warsaw Institute webpage, viewed May 17, 2022:The Augustów Roundup: Genocide in the shadow of Potsdam (In mid-1944, about 5000 people were engaged in the Home Army's underground resistance activities in the Augustów and Suwałki regions; The Soviet army re-entered these territories towards the end of 1944; The installation of the communist authorities was accompanied by arrests, plunder, and rape; A new organisation -- the Citizens' Home Army (AKO), based on new command structures, arose in the province of Białystok. Counting nearly 30,000 members, this organisation conducted active combat operations, successfully clashing with Polish communist and Soviet security operational groups; In spring 1945, the communists knew that they did not control the territories surrounding the Augustów Forest; Exaggerated data on AKO numbers and armaments influenced the most important Soviet decision-makers on the scale of the roundup, and possibly on what to do with the partisans arrested; publicly known documents show that what was to be called the Augustów Roundup, was ordered by Joseph Stalin himself; On 27 June, Soviet forces, with the support of Polish communist militia and public safety officers, cleared the forests in the border regions, notably in Giby, Sejny, and Sztabin of the partisans; The actual operations in clearing the Augustów Forest and its contiguous territories from anti-communist partisans was carried out by detachments of the 50th Army of the 3rd Belarusian Front, two rifle divisions of the 48th Army, units of the 62nd Division of the Interior Troops of the NKVD, and two companies of the 1st Praski Infantry Regiment; Combing the forests and villages in search of pro-independence partisans and their supporters commenced on 12 July, and continued for over a week; Over a hundred places in an area of about 35,000 square kilometres were searched. In houses, during field work, in the forests or on the roads, 7,049 people were arrested; In a telegram dated 24 July from Victor Abakunov, the Smersh commander to Lavrentiy Beria, the Peoples' Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR requested permission to "liquidate the bandits arrested in the Augustów Forest"; the report of the 50th Army command quotes the total figure of 5,169 people under arrest; 592 "bandits" was quoted as earmarked for extermination; Stefan Chełmiński of the Polish Red Cross managed to establish over 1130 names of missing people in the 1950s; The victims of the Roundup were murdered without court sentences, without trials)
