Proskurov

Meantime, the Red Army — the 1st Guards Army and the 3rd Tank Army — had launched an attack at the junction between the German 1st and 4th Panzer Armies, and by the morning of 14 March had crossed the Ternopol-Proskurov rail line, which was the 1st Panzer Army's main supply line.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

By midday Bäke's forces were already thirty kilometers west of Proskurov, and in the Vidva-Medvedovka area they came upon units of the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

Oberleutnant Dr. König received orders to tow all of his nonoperational tanks to Proskurov.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

When a large armored force was assembled in the Proskurov area to counter a threatened Soviet breakthrough toward the west, the first unit to arrive was the 6th Panzer Regiment.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

Still attached to the 6th Panzer Division, its assignment was to secure the major Proskurov-Vinnitsa road and the bridges over the River Bug near Sawniza-Trilu-chowzy.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

The next major attack by Armored Group Bäke rolled westward across the main road from Proskurov.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

In the town of Proskurov, in February of 1919, about 2000 Jews were murdered in a pogrom.

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In the town of Proskurov, in February of 1919, about 2000 pogrom.

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Ariel Durant was born Chaya (her English name was Ida) Kaufman on May 10, 1898, in the Jewish ghetto of Proskurov, or Chmelnitski, in the West Ukraine, to Ethel Appel, the stylish and poetic daughter of a biblical scholar, and Joseph Kaufman, a struggling clothing salesman who subsequently immigrated to America in search of a better life for his family.

Ariel Durant. 2009

When Durant married, her mother’s uncle objected so violently to Ariel’s being given “to a Godforsaken Gentile” that frantic Ethel borrowed money to return to Proskurov so that the “good Moishe Lebe should [not] think ill of her,” only to be interned in Russia because of the outbreak of World War I.

Ariel Durant. 2009