Lapanka

Łapanka (literally Catching game) was a nick-name applied to the German policy in occupied Poland during World War II. In łapankas the forces of SS, Wehrmacht and Gestapo rounded up civilians on the streets of Polish cities and took all of them as prisoners. Most of them were either shot on the spot or transported to various concentration and death camps. According to various estimates between 1942 and 1944 there were approximately 400 victims of this policy daily in Warsaw alone, with numbers up to several thousands on some days.

See also:

• List of concentration camps in Poland
• World War II atrocities in Poland