Lost by the Germans on February 1, 1943, the Battle of Zaboreczno in the Zamość region, suspended for several months the deportation of the Polish population, carried out from the end of November 1942.

In June 1942, the Germans produced a document known as the “General Plan for the East”. As part of it, they assumed the deportation of approximately 25 million inhabitants of occupied Poland and the western part of the Soviet Union. About 5 million Germans were planned to be settled in their place. The implementation of that plan began with the “Aktion Zamość” – the expulsion of the village of Skierbieszów near Zamość, on the night of November 27-28, 1942. The action was continued in the following months and resulted in the deportation of about 100-110 thousand people with nearly 30 thousand children from nearly 300 villages. The vast majority of children were separated from their parents, some were sent to Germanization centers, and then to German families. Probably, fewer than a thousand of at least several thousand children survived the war and returned to Poland. Another group was sent to concentration camps.

The deportation led by the Germans met the organized armed resistance of the Peasants’ Battalions (BCh) and the Home Army (AK) which is referred to as the Zamość Uprising. The biggest battle of that uprising took place near Zaboreczno on February 1, 1943. Polish forces consisting of less than 300 BCh and AK soldiers under the command of Captain Franciszek Bartłomowicz pseudonym “Grom”, after a day of fighting, stopped and forced twice as numerous Germans from the 1st Mechanized Battalion of the Gendarmerie to flee. The Poles lost only one killed and several wounded in the fight. The German losses were presumably much higher as a day later one of the nearby sawmills received an order for about 100 coffins.

Unfortunately, a day later, on February 2, the Germans took bloody revenge, assaulting the village Róża. Wounded Poles treated in a field hospital were all killed. Together with them, the Germans murdered nearly 40 inhabitants of the village. The oldest victim was 70 and the youngest was 2 years old.