Glinciszki massacre

The Glinciszki massacre was a mass murder of Polish civilians by the Nazi-subordinated Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalion, committed on 20 June 1944 in the village of Glinciszki (now Glitiškės, Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania) during the occupation of Poland in World War II. In the massacre, 39 hostages died, including 11 women (one in advanced stage of pregnancy), 11 children (some as young as 3 years old), and 6 elderly men. They were executed as a collective punishment for the death of four Lithuanian Nazi policemen on the previous evening, during the skirmish with the anti-fascist Polish resistance units of the 5th Brigade of Armia Krajowa commanded by Lieutenant Wiktor Wiącki. The massacre triggered an act of reprisal by the Polish partisans against Lithuanian collaborators and civilians in Dubingiai two days later.

On 19–20 June 1944, commander of the newly formed 258th Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalion received reports of Polish partisans stationing in Glinciszki (Glitiškės) and sent eight scouts to investigate. The scouts ran into the 5th Brigade of Armia Krajowa: four of them were killed, two were injured, and two escaped. According to information published by a bulletin of the Lithuanian Freedom Army, the four dead Lithuanians were injured and later allegedly executed by stabbing with bayonets, which is disproved by the Polish historical research. According to Paweł Rokicki of IPN, they died in an exchange of fire, surrounded by soldiers of the 1st company of Lieutenant Wiktor Wiącki ("Rakoczy") and the 3rd squadron of Antoni Rymsza ("Maks"). Within hours, a company of 50 men from the 258th Battalion arrived in Glinciszki. They collected the dead. Polish partisans were no longer there. According to Nazi sources, members of Armia Krajowa were spotted bathing in a river and quickly retreated. The Lithuanian police alleged that the civilian workers of Glitiškės Manor alerted Armia Krajowa about the Lithuanian scouts. They rounded up all manor workers, interrogated them first, and than executed them. One man, Władysław Klukowski, was spared because he provided the needed information in Lithuanian language.Władysław Komar (), a known member of Armia Krajowa and administrator of the manor (as a representative of the German land management company Landbewirtschaftungsgesellschaft Ostland), arrived at the scene and was pierced with bayonets and bludgeoned to death with rifle butts while trying to run away.

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