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The greatest number of killings took place in the area near Górczewska and Moczydła streets, in particular at a building on Górczewska Street located near a railway embankment. The mass executions at this site began on 4 August and continued until 8 August 1944. The greatest number of victims were killed on 5 August (known as "Black Saturday").
Operation Agatha (Saturday, June 29, 1946), sometimes called Black Sabbath (Hebrew: השבת השחורה) or Black Saturday because it began on the Jewish sabbath, was a police and military operation conducted by the British authorities in Mandatory Palestine during the Jewish insurgency.
The liquidation of the Wola Hospital on "Black Saturday," 5 August 1944, resulted in over 360 victims. The Register of places and facts of crimes committed by the Germans during the Warsaw Uprising states that 300 patients and 60 medical and auxiliary staff members were among those shot. [33]
In reality, the number of victims on "Black Saturday" was likely even higher. Władysław Bartoszewski estimated that on 5 August 1944, more than 20,000 Poles were murdered in Wola. [ 97 ] According to Antoni Przygoński, the death toll from the massacre on that day reached 45,500. [ 98 ]
Black-and-white photos have their own nostalgic charm, but sometimes they can feel a little distant, like glimpses of a world we can’t quite connect with. ... 1944, 1944 Aug. 26. Image credits ...
Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday; Black Saturday (France), the busiest day of the year when many people go on holiday Black Saturday (1903), the collapse of a balcony section during a baseball game between the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, which killed 12 spectators and injured more than 200
The chief foreign correspondent for Fox News, Trey Yingst, will have a book out this fall timed to the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel. “Black Saturday” will be ...
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th ... Agana race riot in Guam between white and black United States Marines. December 26.