Symon Petliura and Antoni Listowski during Polish-Soviet War

Antoni Listowski (29 March 1865,

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

– 13 September 1927, Warsaw) was a Polish military officer. After being a major general of the Imperial Russian Army (from 1916 on), he became general in the Polish Armed Forces and took part in the

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution. After the collapse ...

. General Antoni Listowski won the battle for

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in March 1919 commanding the 9th Infantry Division. The city was taken over in a late-winter blizzard with considerable human losses sustained by his 34th Infantry Regiment who forced the Bolsheviks to retreat to the other side of the river. On 5 April 1919, Listowski's troops committed the

Pinsk massacre The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919, by the Polish Army. The Polish commander, reportedly acting on warnings from two Jewish soldiers about a possible Bolshevik uprising, sought to ...

, executing thirty five suspected pro-Bolshevik Jews. While Listowski was not directly responsible for the massacre, which was ordered by

Aleksander Narbutt-Łuczyński Aleksander Narbutt-Łuczyński (February 28, 1890 – July 25, 1977) was a Polish lawyer and military officer, a brigadier general of the Polish Army and a veteran of both the Polish-Bolshevik War and World War II. During the German-Soviet i ...

, he did justify the killings afterwards. In his order to the population of Pinsk of 7 April 1919, two days after the massacre, Listowski claimed that the "town's Jews as a whole were guilty of the crime of blatant ingratitude."Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History
Indiana University Press, David Engel, page 33

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