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    The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa...
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    and massacres of Jews in June and July 1941 in the city of Lwów in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine (now Lviv, Ukraine). The massacres were...
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  • founded. 1802 – Population: 9,000. 1803 – Duc de Richelieu in power. 1804 – Commercial school founded. 1805 Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia...
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    Odesa (redirect from Odessa, Ukraine)
    Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west...
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    event became known as the 1941 Odessa massacre. On 23 October, General Iosif Iacobici [ro] ordered Macici to travel to Odessa, with the mission of installing...
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  • Tatarka common graves (category Odessa in World War II)
    August 1941 to 29 January 1944. Romania administered the territory as the Transnistria Governorate, with the administrative capital at Odessa. From spring...
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    referred to as Black Saturday (Hebrew: השבת השחורה) or the Simchat Torah Massacre (הטבח בשמחת תורה), and internationally as the 7 October attack. The attacks...
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  • harbour. The Battle of Changsha ended in Chinese victory. The Siege of Odessa (1941) began. The Germans captured Mariupol on the Sea of Azov and Oryol southwest...
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  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Holocaust Encyclopedia – "Odessa massacre" [6] Archived 2018-06-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Romanian) Northern...
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    tried to prevent an Einsatzgruppen massacre, but Paul Blobel's verbal order was direct and decisive. On 22 June 1941, Axis armies invaded the Soviet Union...
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    deportation. Beginning in late 1941, local administrators responded to the deportation of Jews to their area by massacring local Jews in order to free up...
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    The Rumbula massacre is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way...
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    Transnistria Governorate (category Odessa in World War II)
    city on October 16, 1941. Six days later, a bomb exploded in the Romanian military headquarters in Odessa, prompting a massacre of Jews; many were burned...
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    Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of between 2,778 and 2,794 mostly Serb men and boys in Kragujevac by German soldiers on 21 October 1941. It occurred...
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    The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during...
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  • Massacre was a massacre which resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet citizens, most of whom were Jews, during World War II, on September 16–30, 1941...
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    body is mourned by the people of Odessa. "The Odessa Steps" (Одесская лестница), in which imperial soldiers massacre the Odesans. "One against all" (Встреча...
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    Yar outside Kiev and was exceeded only by the 1941 Odessa massacre of more than 50,000 Jews in October 1941, committed by Romanian troops. After the war...
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  • part responsible for the Odessa massacre, in which from October 18, 1941, until mid-March 1942, Romanian soldiers in Odessa, aided by gendarmes and police...
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    The Massacre of 1391, also known as the pogroms of 1391, was a display of antisemitism and violence against Jews in Castile and Aragon. It was one of the...
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    later in Drohobycz. He was responsible for the massacre of 1,500 Polish Jews in Lwów, Poland, in the years 1941–42. Walter Kutschmann was born in Dresden in...
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    Iași pogrom (category Massacres in 1941)
    29 June to 6 July 1941. According to Romanian authorities, over 13,266 people, or one third of the Jewish population, were massacred in the pogrom itself...
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    (Raiņa parks) in the center of Liepāja. On July 3 and 4, 1941, in their first documented massacre in Liepāja, Reichert's EK 1a men, all Germans of the SD...
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    The Ardeatine massacre, or Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine), was a mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners...
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    The Schaffhausen massacre was an anti-Semitic episode in Schaffhausen, in present-day Switzerland, which occurred in 1401. An episode of antisemitism had...
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    Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne is a 2004 book by Polish journalist Anna Bikont on the Jedwabne massacre, a 1941 pogrom of Polish...
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  • Transnistria (see Odessa massacre). In June–July 1941, about 10,000 (mostly civilians) were killed during the military action in the region in 1941 by German...
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    Affairs Mihai Antonescu to the Council of Ministers preceding the massacre in 1941 of around 34,000 Jews, Roma people, and Ukrainians. In a square in...
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  • Ioan Glogojeanu (category 1941 deaths)
    served as the catalyst for the Odessa massacre. He was awarded the Romania's Order of the Crown, Commander rank (in May 1941), and the Order of Michael the...
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  • The Massacre of Humań, or massacre of Uman (Polish: rzeź humańska; Ukrainian: "уманська різня" or "взяття Умані") was a 1768 massacre of the Jews, Poles...
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