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, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Odessa was a port on the Black Sea in the Ukrainian SSR. On 22 June 1941, the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union. On October 22, 1941, a bomb exploded in Romanian military headquarters in Odessa. The blast killed 67 people, including the Romanian military commandant, 16 other Romanian officers, and four German naval officers. Using the incident as an excuse, Romanian army units assembled 19,000 Jews in a public square in the harbor area and shot many of them.
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On October 16, following a two-month siege of Odessa, the Germans and Romanians captured the city. Mass killings of hostages and Jews on October 22-24 Plaque on the wall of the Odessa-Sortuvalna railway station, commemorating the Holocaust Destruction of the Romanian commandant's office Siege of Odessa 8 Aug 1941 - 16 Oct 1941 Contributor: C. Peter Chen The Ukrainian city of Odessa was subjected to German aerial bombing on the very first day of the Axis invasion in Jun 1941. Operation Synytsia During the southern Ukraine offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city of Odesa and the surrounding region have been the target of shelling and air strikes by Russian forces on multiple occasions since the conflict began, fired predominantly from Russian warships situated offshore in the Black Sea. 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, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Bucharest Constanța München Uman Odessa Azov Sevastopol Rostov Kerch Kharkov Blue Edelweiss Stalingrad Uranus Winter Storm
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The Siege of Odessa was a siege battle during World War II. It was part of the Eastern Front area of operations in 1941. It was done by Romanian forces and the German Army's ( Wehrmacht Heer) 11th Army ( 11. Armee ). They attacked the city of Odessa in the Soviet Union . The Potemkin arrived in Odessa's harbor that same night. In the hopes of rallying the workers, a few men rowed ashore and laid Vakulenchuk's corpse near the Richelieu Steps, a famous stairway. The failings of the security forces appear to be one of the few things people agree on. A look at the events in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa on 2 May, when 46 people were killed in. The Siege of Odessa was a siege battle during World War II. It was part of the Eastern Front area of operations in 1941. It was done by Romanian forces and the German Army's 11th Army . They attacked the city of Odessa in the Soviet Union.
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Odessa is located on the Black Sea and is currently the fourth largest city in the Ukraine, with a population exceeding 1,000,000. At the beginning of the war, the city had a population of more than 600,000, of which 30 percent were Jews. By the time of the siege, half the population had fled. (July 30, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, the Siege of Odessa began as elements of the Romanian Fourth Army, commanded by Lt. Gen. Nicolae Ciupercă, arrived outside Odessa. Odessa is located on the Black Sea and is the fourth largest city in Ukraine, with a population exceeding 1 million.
Situated 300km (186 miles) west of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, the city is seen as a strategic asset by both Ukraine and Russia - and its fall would have significant repercussions, not. ODESSA, Ukraine—Sparks fly day and night at the rail yard of Odessa's tram authority, where men in coveralls are slicing up old steel rails and welding them into barricades called "hedgehogs".
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Dr. Grant T. Harward completed his BA in History at Brigham Young University in 2009, MSc in The Second World War in Europe at the University of Edinburgh in 2010, and PhD in History at Texas A&M University in 2018. He is a former Auschwitz Jewish Center fellow, a former Fulbright scholar to Romania, and a former Mandel Center fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Siege of Odessa, Part 1 By Mike Bennighof, Ph.D. Apri 2021. The Romanian Army that marched on Odessa in August 1941 did so with confidence born of a significant victory - the Romanian "lost province" of Bessarabia had been liberated, and the long-feared Red Army sent on the run. Morale would never be higher, and on 27 July the Germans.
