"Sixty-six German enlisted men and officers, and 17 Romanian officers, are killed when the Romanian headquarters in Odessa, Ukraine, explodes.
Three hours later, Jews and Communists are hanged in the central square.
The next day, 5,000 Jews and other civilians are seized and shot."
"This violin once belonged to a Roma Gypsy, Miodrag Djordevic-Tukalia, from Yugoslavia.
German soldiers shot him in the town of Kragujevac sometime between October 20 and 26, 1941, a week of mass shootings.
Djordevic-Tukalia's son kept the violin as a memento of his deceased father."
"Sixteen thousand Odessa, Ukraine, Jews are force-marched out of the city toward Dalnik, where they are bound together in groups of 40 to 50 and shot, at first in the open and later through holes drilled in the walls of warehouses.
Three of these structures are set ablaze and a fourth is exploded by artillery fire."
"Naked and terrified, a young Jewish woman begs for her life.
Already stripped of her clothes, she is pushed toward a mass grave, where she will be shot in the back of the head or machine-gunned.
Because this photograph was snapped head-on and at eye level, it almost certainly was not taken surreptitiously.
To the contrary, the photographer likely wished to make a document--or perhaps a keepsake--of this interlude in the day's work of his unit.
One cannot help but wonder about this woman's fate: In their haste, the Einsatzkommandos sometimes failed to deliver a fatal shot, leaving a few of their victims to gasp for air and claw their way through the corpses surrounding them."