Holy Cross murderers
On May 5, 1944, the unit of Lieutenant Władysław Kołaciński "Żbik", who a few months later became part of the Świętokrzyska Brigade, carried out an attack and massacre of Jews in Górki Budziszowickie. A participant of the action reported:
Dębica, Pińczów post office. A two-day stopover without any events, apart from an action on thirteen Jews hiding in Górki Budziszowickie near Mały Książ - four squads of forty soldiers under the command of the company chief "Bursik" went to the above-mentioned town, where after pulling out thirteen Jews (a few children, elderly maidens, elderly women, seven men of about the same age), beating the farmer with whom the Jews were staying, they took them a few kilometers from the town to a clearing and shot them, leaving them where they were