Expulsion of Warsaw population

The expulsion of Warsaw population was the mass displacement of residents of Warsaw and its suburbs, carried out by the German occupiers during and immediately after the Warsaw Uprising.

Between August and October 1944, German military and police units expelled almost 550,000 Warsaw residents and approximately 100,000 residents of the surrounding towns from their homes. The large majority of those expelled were sent to transit camps on the outskirts of Warsaw, mainly to Dulag 121 in Pruszków. From there, nearly 150,000 people were transported to forced labor camps deep within the Third Reich or to German concentration camps. The remaining displaced persons – mostly elderly people, women, and children – were resettled to the western districts of the General Government and left there without any means of subsistence.

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