Between November 1942 and March 1943 on direct orders from Heinrich Himmler, 116,000 Polish men and women were expelled in just a few months during Action Zamość. In Polish historiography the events surrounding the Nazi German roundups are often named alternatively as the Children of Zamojszczyzna to emphasize the apprehension of around 30,000 children at that time, snatched away from their parents who were transported from Zamojszczyzna to concentration camps. The expulsions encompassed the districts of Hrubieszów, Tomaszów Lubelski, Zamość and Biłgoraj, and were completed in March 1943. In total 297 Polish villages were depopulated. Villages and dead victims Investigations by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance into pacifications of specific villages focus on locations within contemporary Poland. They are exponentially greater within the prewar borders of the Republic. The list of pacified villages within the borders of postwar Poland was arranged by the IPN according to one of Poland's eleven voivodeships (administrative regions) which were not a part of Nazi Germany upon the 1939 invasion of Poland. Likewise, all settlements presently within the borders of post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus are excluded from the list. They belonged to Poland's prewar Lwów Voivodeship, Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–39), Polesie Voivodeship, Stanisławów Voivodeship, Tarnopol Voivodeship, Wilno Voivodeship (1926–39), and Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–39). The number of pacified villages for each of the present-day voivodeships is as follows. Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship: 29 Lubelskie Voivodeship: 103 Łódzkie Voivodeship: 26 Małopolskie Voivodeship: 24 Podkarpackie Voivodeship: 21 Podlaskie Voivodeship: 34 Pomorskie Voivodeship: 6 Śląskie Voivodeship: 15 Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship: 53 Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship: 2 Wielkopolskie Voivodeship: 26 See also War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II Nazi crimes against the Polish nation Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz) Operation Tannenberg Generalplan Ost plan of colonization German camps in occupied Poland during World War II Anti-Polish sentiment Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Notes Citations References USHMM, Poles: Victims of the Nazi Era. Holocaust Teacher Resource Center © 2015. Pacyfikacja Wanat description of pacification of the village of Wanaty - in Polish Pacyfikacje Polish Wielka Encyklopedia PWN'' entry on pacifications in the territory of Poland Pacifications in Białystok Voivodeship Pacification of villages in General Government at MartyrologiaWsiPolskich.pl Pacification of Mazovian villages during German occupation in 'Chronicles of Terror' testimony database 1939 in Poland 1940 in Poland 1941 in Poland 1942 in Poland 1943 in Poland 1944 in Poland Massacres in Poland Germany–Poland relations Nazi war crimes in Poland