Pin made in Ukraine. The text on the pin reads:”Dnjepropetrovsk”.
In an attempt to shed the geographical legacy of the Soviet era, the Ukrainian government launched a “decommunization initiative” in 2016, leading to the renaming of more than 900 cities. Dnipropetrovsk was by far the largest city affected, and in May 2016, its name was officially shortened to Dnipro.
Dnipropetrovsk was under Nazi German occupation from 26 August 1941 to 25 October 1943. The Holocaust in Dnipropetrovsk reduced the city’s remaining Jewish population, estimates for which range from 55,000 to 30,000, to just 702.
In just two days, 13–14 October 1941, the Germans killed 15,000. Germany operated three prisoner-of-war camps in the city, chiefly Stalag 348 with several subcamps in the region from October 1941 to February 1943, after its relocation from Rzeszów in German-occupied Poland, at which the occupiers are estimated to have killed upwards of 30,000 Soviet POWs, and briefly also the Stalag 310 and Stalag 387 camps.
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