Daily Archives: January 18, 2023

Soviets announce they’ve broken through long Nazi siege of Leningrad 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 18 1943)

1940s, World War II


Video: 'That Shock Army that Broke the Most Brutal Siege of WW2'

(Monday, January 18, 1943, 9:30 a.m. Moscow Standard Time; during Operation Iskra, part of the Siege of Leningrad on the Eastern Front of World War II) — The Red Army of the Soviet Union today broke the German Wehrmacht’s 515-day siege of Leningrad a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Continue reading Soviets announce they’ve broken through long Nazi siege of Leningrad 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 18 1943) →

Jewish insurgents in Warsaw Ghetto launch initial armed resistance 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 18 1943)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Total War Coming to Germany - WAH 51 - January 1943, Pt. 2' (Warsaw ghetto 16:49)

(Monday, January 18, 1943, 7:00 a.m. Central European Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began today as Nazi soldiers began their second deportation from Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland. Continue reading Jewish insurgents in Warsaw Ghetto launch initial armed resistance 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 18 1943) →