Did Wikipedia remove the word "massacre" from the Cisie article?

Yes. "massacre" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2005 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Cisie article stop using the word "massacre"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2005. It appears nowhere in the article today, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

How can I verify what Wikipedia's Cisie article used to say?

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Cisie

The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2005. Today the opening carries none, and neither does the rest of the article, references included.

Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.

Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included.

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The opening as it read in 2005

Cisie is a Polish village , near Ceglow in Siedlce province. Cisie is best known for its citizens' actions during the Holocaust . The villagers helped hide a number of Polish Jews from Ceglow, as well as some who had escaped from trains en route to the Treblinka extermination camp . On June 28 , 1943 raids were carried out on the village by the German military police from Mińsk Mazowiecki, during which 25 Poles were snatched from their homes, together with numerous Jews they sheltered. Jews and the Poles who had sheltered them were massacred and the village burnt to the ground. v t e¹

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Today

“massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included. Read the current article and compare.

Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
	2005	2010	2015	2020	Oct '23	2025
massacre	1	0	0	0	0	0

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