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| 1940 from April 4 |
| | | More than 4000 Polish officers are massacred at Katyń on Stalin's orders | |
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| 1919 June 22 |
| | | German armies cross the border to invade Russia on a front from the Baltic to southern Poland | |
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| 1941 December 7 |
| | | In three adapted vans at Chelmno, in western Poland, the Germans begin using poison gas to kill Jews | |
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| 1942 March |
| | | The Nazis build a new style of concentration camp, at Auschwitz in Poland, in which the fit will work and the unfit will be killed | |
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| 1942 from March |
| | | German industrial enterprises are moved from the vulnerable Ruhr valley to the slave labour facilities of Auschwitz | |
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| 1942 July |
| | | Treblinka is constructed, in Poland, as the Nazis' first large-scale and purpose-built death camp | |
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| 1943 April 19 |
| | | Jews in Warsaw resist a fierce German onslaught for a month before their ghetto is finally destroyed | |
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| 1944 August 1 |
| | | Members of the Polish resistance rise against the Germans in Warsaw, in a conflict lasting two months and bringing massive casualties | |
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| 1945 January 27 |
| | | The Red Army liberates the surviving prisoners at Auschwitz, who include the Italian novelist Primo Levi | |
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| 1947 |
| | | An election campaign in Poland, marked by violence and the use of terror, brings a Communist landslide | |
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