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Apr 26, 2024 · Sonderkommando 11b remained in Odesa from October 17 to mid-November 1941. On October 23, the German unit shot an unknown number of Jews from the Fontans’ka Street prison. They carried out another, larger mass shooting operation, likely also in late October.
By 17 October 1941, 80% of the 210,000 Jews in the region had been killed. This was in contrast to Jews in Romania proper, where the majority survived.
Jan 27, 2022 · From 1941 to 1945, around 130,000 Jews were tortured and killed in the Odesa region. The biggest massacre, of 30,000 people in one day, mostly Jews, occurred on October 23, 1941. The Odesa tragedy has been a long overlooked page of Shoah history, until now.
- Ugo Poletti
Oct 22, 2018 · German and Romanian officials have attended a memorial service for the 30,000 people, mostly Ukrainian Jews, murdered on October 22-23, 1941. The massacre has been a long overlooked page of...
Oct 22, 2018 · More than 33,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis in Babyn Yar in Kyiv. DW's Roman Goncharenko says the victims have long been forgotten, as memorials to Holocaust victims were not common in...
Oct 25, 2012 · Over the following three days, some 44,000 were killed – by shooting, fire, shelling, and hand grenades. On the final day, October 25, those who were still alive, numbering between 35,000 and 40,000, were moved to the ghetto in the suburb of Slobodka, and left outdoors until November 3.
In 1939 some 201,000 Jews lived in the city. Germany and Romania established a siege on Odessa on August 5, 1941; the city surrendered on October 16. Before the siege, about half of Odessa's Jews managed to escape, and by October the Jewish population had dwindled to about 90,000.
