Casualties of World War II=The aim of this project is to record the fatalities of World War II.
The purpose of this project to commemorate those individuals who had the courage to stand up and be righteous. Please add anyone you know was a member of a resistance movement or even resisted in their own personal wayThis project is loosely based on the list of Dutch citizens involved in resistance to the NAZI occupation of Holland during World War II on Wikipedia .The very nature of any resis...
A list of the internees from Dalmatia, who died in the Weimar-Buchenwald camp The list contains dead internees in the camp itself, as well as in lower ranked commands (Dora, Lavre, etc.). The deceased internees at the Buchenwald camp were partially relocated to this camp from other camps, such as Dachau, Auschwitz, Sachsen-Bansen, etc. The list was made up of a transcript from the camp books, ...
British Prisoners of War World War II Please add Geni profiles of WW2 Prisoners of War from Britain to this project.See also >===== World War II - American Prisoners >===== World War II - Prisoners of War from Canada >===== Others to Follow All PoWs were allegedly protected by rules for the treatment of prisoners of war which had been established in the Geneva Convention of 1929. See WIKI Briti...
vridni podaci preuzeti su iz knjige Gordane Turić, "U temelju kamen" - Spomenica žrtvama idealu hrvatske države Imotske Krajine (od 1941. do 1990. godine)Knjiga je izdana 2000. godine a govori o tisućama Imoćana koji su u i nakon 2. svjetskog rata dali živote za svoju Domovinu. Među njima su i 54 Dobranjčana. Od toga 43 su bili pripadnici Hrvatskih oružanih snaga (NDH - Ustaše - Domobrani), 6 p...
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I . Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was on...
The Battle of Sokolovo took place on 8 and 9 March 1943, near the village of Sokolovo (Ukrainian: Соколове, Sokolove) near Kharkiv in Ukraine when the ongoing attack of the Wehrmacht was delayed by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was the first time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red Army. Under the command of L...
Sungari offensive operation (August 9 - September 2, 1945) The Soviet invasion of Manchuria The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian strategic offensive operation (Russian: Манчжурская стратегическая наступательная операция, romanized: Manchzhurskaya Strategicheskaya Nastupatelnaya Operatsiya) or simply the Manchurian operation (Маньчжурская операция), began on 9 A...
In Germany, stalag (German pronunciation: [%CB%88%CA%83talak]) was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps. Stalag is a contraction of "Stammlager", itself short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager.According to the Third Geneva Convention of 1929 and its predecessor, the Hague Convention of 1907, Section IV, Chapter 2, these camps were only for prisoners of war, not civilians. Stalags wer...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Bershad, Ukraine, also known as Bershad' [Rus, Ukr, Yid], Berschad, Barsad, Bersad', Berszad, Berșad [Rom], Berszada [Pol]. KehilaLinks - Bershad Ukraine SIG - Bershad BERSHAD, small town in *Vinnitsa district, Ukraine. Jews started to settle there at the end of the 16th century. They were butchered by one of the Cossack bands during...
Transnistria was a geographic freak, but a historic reality. The name was coined by the Fascists to designate a territory of about 16,000 square miles, designated for the annihilation of Jews deported from Romania. It was an area situated in south-western Ukraine, between the River Dniester to the west, the River Bug to the east, the Black Sea to the south, and a line beyond the city of Moghile...
The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders was a group eighty men from all walks of life who flew into history on April 18, 1942. They were all volunteers and this was a very dangerous mission. Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, led by (then Col.) Jimmy Doolittle. They were to fly over Japan, drop their bombs and fly on to land in a part of China that was still free. Of course, thi...
==Overview==North Africa was probably one of the fronts most neglected both by Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War. The conflict began with a few skirmishes along the border in June 1940 and ended in May 1943 with the surrender of the Axis troops in Tunisia. But this theatre of war certainly was not of secondary importance given the number of soldiers involved in the fighting, the ...
Tähän projektiin kerätään kattavasti talvi- ja jatkosodan Lentolaivue 24 lentäjät. LLv24, Le.Lv. 24, HLe.Lv.24 Lentolaivue 24 oli Suomen ilmavoimien hävittäjälentolaivue, joka perustettiin 10. lokakuuta 1934. Laivue osallistui sekä talvi- että jatkosodan ilmasotatoimiin, ja se on edelleen toiminnassa Karjalan lennostoon kuuluvana yksikkönä. Nykyiseltä nimeltään laivue on Hävittäjälentolaivu...
"Chakdina" was built in 1914 at the outbreak of WW1. On 13 January 1940 it was requisitioned by Admiralty as an armed boarding vessel. On the late afternoon of 5 December 1941 the SS Chakdina had left Tobruk Harbour, Libya, carrying around 380 wounded Allied soldiers, 100 German and Italian Prisoners of War and 120 crew away from grossly overcrowded hospitals. A number of other Allied soldiers ...
World War Two: Armed Forces - Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)= Image right Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery inspects a Royal Rhodesia Regiment guard of honour during a visit to the territory in 1947Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery inspects a Royal Rhodesia Regiment guard of honour during a visit to the territory in 1947 This project aims to honour the Rhodesians who fought and/or died during or as a co...
This is the umbrella project about wars in Croatia through history.This project is part of the Hrvatsko Rodoslovlje / Croatian Genealogy Hrvatski ratovi / Wars in Croatia, Hr | En ==Introduction - something about history==Ovaj projekt uključuje geni podprojekti / This project include a geni subprojects:* Dynastic war in Croatia 1091. – 1105. * Bitka kod Tuzle 1878. / The Battle near of Tuzla in...
Drugom svjetskom ratu poginuli ili nestali su:# Mate Alagić # Ante Čagalj # Ivan Mušura # Jure Mušura # Iko Mušura,sin Ante i Kate r. Dujmović, rođen 1927.godine.Hrvatski vojnik –ustaša.Zapovjednik vojne policije u Krapini. Nestao u ratu.# Jozo Mušura # Mate Dedić # Marko Dedić
PORTAL (master project) for South African involvement during World War II.==== This is the start of a project to pull together and list all Projects ( not profiles ) related to South Africans during World War II. ===At the moment there aren't many projects for South African involvement during WWII. Here is the start of getting some sub-projects going where we can add profiles of SA soldiers who...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Tovste, Ukraine, also known as Tolstoye, Tłuste, Toist, Tlusta, Tłuste Miasto, Tłuste Myasto, Toyst, Tolstoya. Gesher Galicia - Tovste Urban Type Settlement Jewish History ===Overview=== Tovste (Ukrainian: Товсте) is an urban-type settlement in the Zalischyky Raion (district) of Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukrai...
Background === Berga an der Elster , a subdivision of Buchenwald, was a Nazi slave labor camp that held and tortured 350 American Prisoners of War (POW) after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944. While thousands of POWs were captured on that ill-fated day, the Nazis held a subset of 350 American soldiers at Berga beginning February 13, 1945. The American POWs were iden...
Civili - umrli u talijanskom logoru u Pločama==* Andrijašević Zdravko, dijete, otac Ivan i majka Danica rođ. Bogunović, rođ. 15.4.1940., umro 18.7.1943.* Stipić Alojzija, dijete, otac Mate i majka Ane rođ. Ujdur, rođ. 24.4.1929. Gradac - umro 29.7.1943.* Stipić Anka, dijete, otac Mate i majka Ane rođ. Ujdur, rođ. 1930. Gradac - 16.8.1943.* Stipić Nevenka - Inocentina, ud. Šimuna, rođ. 28.12.186...
Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam -Namenlijst D tot en met F== Dit project is sub-project van het project Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam ENG : This project is a sub project of Holocaust Victims Rotterdam ==Slachtoffers / Victim lists==* Namen/Names A -C * Namen/ Names D - F * Namen/Names G - I
Bethnal Green Tube Disaster 1943==London, England : On 3 March 1943 a crowd of people entered Bethnal Green tube station which was used at the time as an air-raid shelter. After the searchlights went on and an anti-aircraft battery a few hundred yards away in Victoria Park launched a salvo of a new type of anti-aircraft rockets the crowd surged forward. Someone tripped on the stairs causing man...
Several years before the second world war, Norway stopped the death penalty. I krigens dager ble henrettelser av mennesker innenfor Norges grenser i de fleste tilfeller gjennomført som et instrument for å fra de ikke demokratisk valgte styresmaktenes side å avskrekke folket mot å arbeide i motstandsbevegelsen. I flere tilfeller ble det brukt som en vilkårlig hevn med tilfeldig utvalgte ofre. I ...