Marianna Dolińska "wreath of children"
Marianna Dolińska Marianna Dolińska (1891–1928) was a Romani woman from the village of Antoniówka in Radom County, Poland. In 1923, after her husband was arrested for burglary and her wagon camp was dispersed, she wandered in the wilderness with her four children, aged six months to seven years. Fearing for their starvation, on the night of 11 December, she murdered them, hanging them from a tree. She confessed at a police station the following day. Dolińska was sent to a psychiatric hospital and died there in 1928. Crime scene photographs of the bodies of Dolińska's children came to be known as the "wreath of children" and have been falsely claimed to represent victims of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1943 Murder of her children During the winter of 1923, the inhabitants of Radom County in Poland suffered from poverty and hunger. The Polish State Polic...