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...

founded. 1802 – Population: 9,000. 1803 – Duc de Richelieu in power. 1804 – Commercial school founded. 1805 Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia...

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...

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...

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...

August 1941 to 29 January 1944. Romania administered the territory as the Transnistria Governorate, with the administrative capital at Odessa. From spring...

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...

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...

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...

The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom...