Sub - district III of Wola ( of Armia Krajowa ) The Sub - district III of Wola ( of Armia Krajowa ) ( Polish : " Obwód III Wola " ) – a territorial organisational unit of the District of Warsaw of " Armia Krajowa " , acting during the German occupation of Poland . Military units of the district took part in the Warsaw Uprising . During the house - to - house fighting , Nazi troops from the " S . S . Sturmbrigade R . O . N . A . " and the " SS - Dirlewanger Brigade " committed the Wola Massacre killing between 40 , 000 to 50 , 000 Polish civilians . The chief of the sub - district was lieutenant - colonel Jan Tarnowski pseudonym " " Waligóra " " . Under his command the sub - district ' s military units fought in Wola from 1 until 6 August 1944 , when prevailing German units forced them to withdraw to Old Town , Śródmieście and to Kampinos Forest . Organisation . The Sub - district of Wola included : Course of combat . The place of concentration of the Region I on was Górce - Blizne . Units could not take weapon stored in the area of Ulrich gardens , because one day earlier German tanks had arrived there . Soldiers passed through to the Kampinos Forest , received weapon there and were included into the Kampinos Group . In the attack from Żoliborz to the Warsaw Gdańsk Station the units suffered losses up to 80 % of their number . Those who survived , were included into the Żaglowiec Grouping and continued to fight until the moment of the capitulation of Żoliborz on 1944 . In the Region II , the 1st company of second lieutenant " Jaśmin " was assigned the task to seize the petroleum factory in Koło . The attack was recalled because engineer units failed to destroy the wall fence . After retreat from the area of the streets : Obozowa / Wawryszewska / Świętego Stanisława and upon a reconnaissance of the situation , the company was assigned the task to erect and to man the barricades in the intersections of streets : Obozowa / Młynarska , Górczewska / Działdowska and Wolska / Działdowska . In the night from to part of the soldiers were sent in the area of the Jewish cemetery to receive air drops . In the afternoon on the unit withdrew to Gibalskiego street . On the company moved to the Old Town and took a section of Brzozowa street from Kamienne Schodki up to Mostowa street . It was undertaken an unsuccessful and hard - fought attack on the Warsaw Gdańsk Station . After working its way to Śródmieście the company defended a section of Widok street as well as a barricade on the crossing of Bracka / Aleje Jerozolimskie streets . The 2nd company of second lieutenant " Gromada " ought to have seized a school building in Górczewska street . Because of heavy fire of the enemy it was forced to withdaw to the area of Wawrzyszewska / Obozowa streets crossing , where it manned a defensive positions extending up to Ostroroga street . On the unit withdrew to the area of Protestant cemetery ; on to Kercelak and then it moved to the Old Town . The unit took part in fights in Stawki and in the attack on the Warsaw Gdańsk Station . Having retreated to Śródmieście it defended Książęca street . The 3rd company of sec . lieutenant " Ostoja " was assigned the task to bar the road to Warsaw from the direction of Ulrichów against Germans . The platoon commanded by sec . lieutenant Franciszek Potocki pseudonym " Laos " set about executing the task . The enemy had manned a viaduct and mastered the neighbourhood by conducting fire from guard towers placed along the railway line . The attack collapsed . There were many wounded and 15 killed . The platoon of officer cadet Marian Lewandowski pseudonym " Ryś " , armed with hand - grenades only , seized the caserns in a school in Gostyńska street and manned barricades in Górczewska / Płocka streets crossing and at the hospital in Płocka street . In the course of heavy fight an enemy tank was destroyed and many pieces of weapon were seized . On the unit withdrew to Górczewska / Działdowska street crossing , and then to Grzybowska and Mariańska streets , where insurgents who were withdrawing from Wola , were gathering . The Wola units were organised into the Józef Sowiński Bataillon , which fought in streets of Komitetowa , Pańska , Ceglana / Żelazna crossing , Grzybowska , on the area of the Norblin Factory and the Haberbusch Brewery . The assigned area was kept on until the end of the Warsaw Uprising . Units of the Region III after short fight in Karolkowa and Dworska streets withdrew to Śródmieście and to the Old Town , where they took part in fights conducted by various units until the end of the uprising .