Skidel revolt

Skidel revolt
	Part of the Polish-Belarusian ethnic conflict and the invasion of Poland
Date	18–19 September 1939
Location	Skidzyelʹ, Białystok Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic53°35′00″N 24°15′00″E / 53.58333°N 24.25000°E
Result	Uprising suppressed; Skidel taken by Soviet forces the next day;
Belligerents
Second Polish Republic	Communist Party of Western Belorussia
Strength
	100 soldiers and police officers
Casualties and losses
Several killed	31 killed (including 26 executed)

The Skidel Revolt (Polish: Powstanie Skidelskie, Belarusian: Скідзельскае паўстанне) or Skidal Uprising (term used in Soviet historiography) was an anti-state and anti-Polish sabotage action done by Jewish and Belarusian inhabitants of the Polish town of Skidel near Grodno (now Skidzieĺ, Belarus) at the onset of World War II. It started on the second day of the Soviet invasion of Poland in an attempt to assist the external attack.^[1]

^ Marek Wierzbicki (2007). Western Belarus in September 1939 – Polish-Jewish Relations in the kresy. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-3865832405. Retrieved December 13, 2012. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[Wierzbicki-140-1] Marek Wierzbicki (2007). Western Belarus in September 1939 – Polish-Jewish Relations in the kresy. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-3865832405. Retrieved December 13, 2012. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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