2003)
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| Population density
| 7476/km²
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| Mayor
| Zdzisław Sipiera
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| Notable landmarks
| Powązki Cemetery
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| align="center" colspan="2" | [Wola Website]
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Wola is a district of western Warsaw, Poland, formerly the village of Wielka Wola, that was incorporated into Warsaw in 1916. An industrial area with traditions reaching back to the early 19th century, it's slowly changing into an office and residential district. Several museums are located in Wola.
During the Warsaw Uprising (August-October 1944), fierce battles raged in Wola. Around August 8, Wola was the scene of the largest single massacre of (according to different sources) 40,000 to 50,000 of the Polish population. The Nazi units indiscriminately executed the civilians of the district, including hospital patients, elderly, children and women, as well as any insurgents taken prisoner.
German forces during their failed assault on Wola, suburb of Warsaw, on September 9, 1939
By August 5, more than fifteen thousand Polish civilians had been murdered by German troops in Warsaw. At 5:30 that evening, General von dem Bach Zelewski gave the order for the execution of women and children to stop. But the killing continued of all Polish men who were captured, without anyone bothering to find out whether they were insurgents or not. Nor did either the Cossacks or the criminals in the Kaminsky and Dirlewanger brigades pay any attention to von dem Bach Zelewski's order: by rape, murder, torture and fire, they made their way through the suburbs of Wola and Ochota, killing in three days of slaughter a further thirty thousand civilians, including hundreds of patients in each of the hospitals in their path.
The mass murder of civilians in Wola district was investigated by Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland.
