Exactly 80 years ago, on 8 March 1944, the Germans performed the annihilation of the village of Jamy. As a result, they murdered 152 people, including women and children. All the buildings were burnt down. The crime was presumably a retaliation for an attack on a subdivision of Turkmens in German service by communist partisans.

Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Jamy was a village of about 120 households and a population of over 600 people. The village was located about 40 km north-east of Lublin. During the German occupation, it became part of the Lublin district.

At the beginning of March 1944, a detachment of Turkmen, who had previously been Soviet soldiers and had formed an armed collaborationist unit after being taken prisoner by the Germans, appeared in the village. Arrived, Turkmen demanded accommodation in several houses, food and the appointment of cartmen with carts for the morning of 8 March. Soon information about their stay reached the communist partisan unit commanded by Mieczysław Moczar. Late in the evening, the partisans attacked the houses occupied by the Turkmen. During the action, several were killed, and a dozen were shot after being taken prisoner.

The attack prompted the arrival of a punitive German expedition to the village, which, in addition to SS and gendarmerie units, included Turkmen. The village was cordoned off tightly, with the occupiers entering each house and expelling the inhabitants, who were then murdered. Some people were shot collectively, some were burnt alive in one of the farms. Neither children nor women were spared. They were brutally raped before being killed. A total of 152 people, including 95 women, were murdered in Jamy that day by the Germans and their accomplices. The youngest victim, Janina Szkuat, was 6 months old.

The bodies of the victims were buried in a mass grave in the cemetery in Ostrow Lubelski.