10 Jun 1920
Ukraine
Ukraine
16 Sep 1941
Ukraine
Ukraine
- German Generals Guderian and Kleist's Panzergruppen linked up east of Kiev, Ukraine, encircling 5 Soviet Armies. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Kiev | TH]
19 Sep 1941
Ukraine
Ukraine
- German troops captured Kiev, Ukraine, along with 600,000 prisoners, 2,500 tanks, and 1,000 artillery pieces. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Kiev | TH]
24 Sep 1941
Ukraine
Ukraine
- The German Einsatzgruppe C set up its headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Kiev | CPC]
28 Sep 1941
Ukraine
Ukraine
- A notice was posted in Kiev, Ukraine, requiring all Jews in the region to gather at Dorogozhitshaya Street at 0700 hours the next day. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Kiev | CPC]
29 Sep 1941
Ukraine
Ukraine
- The German Einsatzgruppen massacred somewhere between 50,000 and 96,000 Ukrainians, 33,771 of whom Jews, at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Kiev | TH]
13 Sep 1944
Ukraine
Ukraine
- Ferdinand Catlos was arrested by the Soviets in Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Ferdinand Catlos | Kiev | CPC]
3 Mar 2010
Ukraine
Ukraine
- Mariya Dolina passed away in Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Mariya Dolina | Kiev | CPC]
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