1941 ⟶ Bolekhiv First Aktion Massacre
Bolekhiv first aktion massacre – 1,000 of the leading Jews r...
Year
1941
🪦 Bolekhiv First Aktion Massacre
Bolekhiv first aktion massacre – 1,000 of the leading Jews rounded up by list, tortured, and on the following day 800 of the surviving Jews, were shot or buried alive at a nearby forest. The re-discovered atrocities and testimony in 1996 lead to Patrick Desbois's research on the German method of "One Bullet, One Jew" extermination in 1941 and 1942.⟶
HolocaustBolekhivMassacreJewish PersecutionGenocideWar CrimesOne Bullet, One JewEastern FrontExtermination
🩸 Bloody Sunday Massacre in Stanisławów
Bloody Sunday massacre at Stanisławów, 8,000–12,000 Jews were rounded up and shot into pits by SIPO (Ukrainian police) together with German uniformed SS men. Dr. Tenenbaum of the Judenrat heroically refuses the offer of exemption and is shot along with the others.⟶
HolocaustMassacreStanislawowJewsSSUkraineGenocideEastern FrontWar Crimes
🔥 Odessa Massacre Begins
Odessa massacre begins and continues for two days. 25,000 to 34,000 Jews are led in a long procession and are shot and killed in an antitank ditch, or burnt alive after being crowded into four buildings.⟶
HolocaustMassacreEastern FrontRomaniaJewish PersecutionWar CrimesGenocideSoviet Union
💀 Vilna Ghetto Gelbschein I Aktion
Vilna Ghetto Gelbschein I Aktion. 5,500 Jews including 140 old or paralyzed people killed.⟶
HolocaustVilna GhettoAktionJewish PersecutionLithuaniaGenocideMassacreEastern Front
💔 Vilna Ghetto II Liquidated
Vilna Ghetto II liquidated. 2,500 Jews killed.⟶
HolocaustVilna GhettoLiquidatedJewish PersecutionLithuaniaGenocideMassacreEastern Front
💥 Vilna Ghetto Gestapo Workers Aktion
Vilna Ghetto Gestapo Workers Aktion – 800 Jews and 10 Poles shot at the Ponary massacre death site. Temperatures are minus 23 degrees Celsius.⟶
Vilna GhettoHolocaustGestapoAktionJewish PersecutionLithuaniaPonaryMassacreNazi GermanyEastern Front