Table of Data Points

Tag : Poland

1944-06-06D-Day

The largest amphibious invasion of all time, with 175,000 troops, 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships.

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1944-03-24The Great Escape

76 prisoners of Stalag Luft III escape. 73 are subsequently recaptured and 50 are murdered by the Gestapo on Hitler's orders.

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1944-01-171944-05-18Monte Casino

The Gustav line was assaulted four times by Allied troops. For the last of these the Allies gathered 20 divisions for a major assault along a twenty mile front and drove the German defenders from their positions but at a high cost.

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1943-11-031943-11-04Erntefest Massacre

The Trawniki and Poniatowa labor camps were surrounded by SS and police units. Jews were then taken out of the camps in groups and shot in nearby pits dug for this purpose. At of the two days 42,000 jews had been murdered.

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1943-08-02Treblinka Revolt

Prisoners seized small arms, sprayed kerosene on all the buildings and set them ablaze. A number of guards were killed but many more prisoners perished. Of 1,500 prisoners, about 600 managed to escape the camp, but only 40 are known to have survived..

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1943-06-12Berezhany Ghetto

At dawn 1,180 Jews are led to the city's Jewish cemetery in Okopysko and shot. A single survivor, Menachem Katz, escaped and described the massacre.

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1943-04-191943-05-16Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Jewish resistance which rose to try and prevent the deportation of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp. The poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops.

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1943-04-07Terebovl Massacre

The 1100 Jewish residents of Terebovl, Ukraine are forced to undress to their underwear, marched to the nearby village of Plebanivka and shot.

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1943-03-131943-03-14Krakow Ghetto Liquidated

Under the command of Amon Gth the Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. Those deemed unfit for work, some 2,000 Jews, were killed in the streets of the ghetto. Any remaining were sent to Auschwitz.

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1943-01-18Warsaw Uprising Launched

The Jewish effort to prevent the remaining Warsaw Ghetto population being moved to Treblinka extermination camp begins.

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