Chronology of Destruction

Invasion of Russia

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I VISIT THIS PAGE ON SEPTEMBER 16, ’18. IT’S BEAUTIFUL. NOTHING TO MOVE TO TIMES PICAYUNE on the HOLOCAUST, HOWEVER.

Blitzkrieg in Russia

 

The Times-Picayune, June 22, 1941- NAZIS FIGHT RUSSIA, HITLER PROCLAIMS WAR AFTER BLAST AT SOVIET UNION, (AP) p. 1 (front page)

The Times-Picayune, June 22, 1941- NAZIS TANGLING WITH BIGGEST OF WORLD’S ARMIES, Actual Strength of Soviet forces Still is Enigma, (AP) p. 4
The Times-Picayune, June 22, 1941 – NAZIS FIGHT RUSSIA, p. 6
The Times-Picayune, June 23, 1941- REDS YIELD UNDER HEAVY BLOWS OF GERMAN UNITS, (AP) p. 1 (front page)
The Times-Picayune, June 23, 1941- REDS YIELD UNDER HEAVY BLOWS OF GERMAN UNITS, (AP) p. 1 (column)
The Times-Picayune, June 23, 1941 – “From Sunday’s Word Barrage,” p. 1
The Times-Picayune, June 23, 1941- NAZIS PAY HEAVY COSTS FOR GAINS, DECLARES RUSSIA, 10-Mile Advance Across Soviet Border, Moscow Reports, (AP) p. 2
August 27, 1941 – Germans and local Poles and Ukrainians torment Jews of Oleszyce in public spectacle.

Eva Galler: Humiliation in Market Place

October 1941 – The Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators transport Shep Zitler’s sister, her son, and daughter Zerna to the killing fields at Ponary Forest outside Vilna.

Shep Zitler: His Niece Zerna at Ponary

October 15, 1941 – Disguised as ‘resettlement’ for work, deportation begins of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews to the “east.”

December 1941 – Mark Skorecki slips into Warsaw Ghetto and is reunited with his wife Ruth and his daughters Anne and Lila.

Anne Levy: Return of Father

Lila Millen: Return of Father

December 7, 1941 – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

December 8, 1941 – Murder of Jews, using gas vans, begins at Chelmno death camp in western Poland.

The Times-Picayune, December 8, 1941 – JAPS BLAST U. S. BASES, (AP) p. 1 (front page)
The Times-Picayune, December 8, 1941 – JAPANESE ATTACK U. S., p. 3
The Times-Picayune, December 8, 1941 – RUSSIANS BREAK GERMAN LINES ON MOSCOW FRONT, (AP) p. 11