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]
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]
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