26 Jun 1941
Poland
Poland
- German Panzer units closed the Bialystok pocket in Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Bialystok | TH]
12 Feb 1943
Poland
Poland
- Jews from the Bialystok ghetto in Poland began to be deported to Treblinka Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bialystok | CPC]
16 Aug 1943
Poland
Poland
- Starting this date and continuing for the next seven days, revolt and destruction took place in the Bialystok Ghetto in Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bialystok | CPC]
5 Dec 1943
Poland
Poland
- German forces began a week-long operation to deport Jews from Bialystok, Poland. While about 10,000 were deported, unknown thousands of Jews were able to hide. 700 were killed while resisting. Most of those deported were sent to Treblinka, Majdanek, or Auschwitz Concentration Camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bialystok | CPC]
27 Jul 1944
Poland
Poland
- Bialystok in Poland, Dunaburg (Daugavpils) in Latvia, and Lviv in Ukraine were captured by Soviet forces; meanwhile, a major bridgehead was also established across the Vistula River near Magnuszew, Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | Bialystok | TH]
7 Nov 1944
Poland
Poland
- 1,030 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters were placed on a special train at Bialystok, Poland for the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia. ww2dbase [Bialystok | CPC]
12 Nov 1944
Poland
Poland
- 1,014 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters were placed on a special train at Bialystok, Poland for the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia. ww2dbase [Bialystok | CPC]
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