The first Battle of Smolensk (German: Kesselschlacht bei Smolensk, lit. 'Cauldron-battle at Smolensk'; Russian: Смоленская стратегическая оборонительная...

invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's...

(1606–1608) The De la Gardie Campaign (1609–1610) Ingrian War (1610–1617) Treaty of Stolbovo (1617) Polish–Swedish wars (1600–1611, 1617–1629) Smolensk War (1632–1634)...

Ghetto), Grodno (the Grodno Ghetto), Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyazma, Gzhatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitebsk (the Vitebsk Ghetto), Smolensk,...

armies trap Red Army forces in Smolensk pocket and take 300,000 soldiers; Orel is taken. 6 August Germans take Smolensk. American and British governments...

an independent principality, following the Polotsk, and at times, the Smolensk and Kiev princes. The official year of the founding of Vitebsk is 974,...

Ostland. This would have incorporated Ingria (Ingermannland), as well as the Smolensk, Pskov, and Novgorod areas into the Reichskommissariat. Estonia's new eastern...

operation known as the De la Gardie Campaign. A Russian army under Prince Dmitry Shuisky was heading towards the besieged fortress of Smolensk, but was intercepted...

headquartered in Baranowitschi, Minsk, Mogilew, Witebsk, and possibly Smolensk. Civil administration was led by a Generalkommissar (General Commissioner)...

Dorogobuzhsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, straddling the Dnieper River and located 125 kilometers (78 mi) east of Smolensk, the administrative center...

cannot be determined as Smolensk had rebelled against Vytautas in 1404 and 1408. Chronicler Jan Długosz praised the Smolensk banners, who fought bravely...

Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Starting in early 1943, many were deported to ghettos like Łódź, and to concentration and extermination camps such as Auschwitz...

 and contributions during World War II Ghetto uprisings Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Białystok Ghetto uprising Częstochowa Ghetto uprising Italian Campaign Operation...

food for themselves and their horses. On 18 August, Napoleon captured Smolensk with the loss of 9,000 of his men, but the Russians were able to withdraw...

Albrecht I was supported by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. The fortress of Smolensk was then the easternmost outpost of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and one...

has caused concern that the presence of the institutions has created a ghetto effect in that part of the city. However, the European presence has contributed...

part in a number of actions against isolated Soviet formations at Minsk, Smolensk and Bryansk. It was then sent to support Guderian's 2nd Panzer Army near...

occupying eastern Belarus. This forced the Obliskomzap to evacuate to Smolensk. The Smolensk Governorate was passed to the Western Oblast. At the end of February...

 and contributions during World War II Ghetto uprisings Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Białystok Ghetto uprising Częstochowa Ghetto uprising Italian Campaign Operation...

the property by way of life tenure to Yury Zenovich, the castellan of Smolensk. After Yury Zenovich died, Sigismund gave the town to voivode of Połock...

 and contributions during World War II Ghetto uprisings Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Białystok Ghetto uprising Częstochowa Ghetto uprising Italian Campaign Operation...

between some of the largest Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe, including the Warsaw Ghetto and the Białystok Ghetto, the capital of the newly formed...

historic city was destroyed and its diverse population decimated by the Ghetto Uprising in 1943, the general Warsaw Uprising in 1944, and systematic razing...

 and contributions during World War II Ghetto uprisings Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Białystok Ghetto uprising Częstochowa Ghetto uprising Italian Campaign Operation...

of the peace, but Russian and Austrian forces still considered each other de facto allies. The commander in the theatre, Sergei Golitsyn, had instructions...

Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as the administrative system of ghettoization and the hostility of various sections of the civilian population, few...

with 89 other high-ranking Polish officials died in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. In 2011, the ruling Civic Platform won parliamentary elections...

August, Axis troops had advanced 500 km (310 miles) and won the Battle of Smolensk. Hitler ordered Army Group Centre to temporarily halt its advance to Moscow...

of California Press, p. 113. "Histoire du roi Jean Sobieski et du royaume de Pologne" [History of King John Sobieski and of the Polish Kingdom]. Paris:...