October 16: Odessa occupied and Jews massacred

Odessa, the largest port city in the Ukraine—on the coast of the Black Sea—was occupied on October 16, 1941, after a two-month siege. Immediately afterwards, the operations company of Romanian intelligence and Einsatzkommando 11b massacred more than 8,000 people, mostly Jews.

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