The chapter on German engineers in the Russian campaign includes a section on “The Capture of Balta” in August 1941.
Balta is in the Ukraine. The town was founded in 1797 with the combination of three towns – Yuzefhrad, Yelensk and Balta. Its population in 2011 was 19,353.
Wikipedia says the Jewish population in 1900 was 13,235. There would not be much use in asking about the 1946 Jewish population.
Operation Mobilisation has held summer camps in Balta.
http://crazyonukraine.blogspot.com/2011/07/balta-camp-2011.html
A UFO was sighted somewhere in the area.
http://trassae95.com/all/news/2013/02/15/nad-gorodom-balta-v-odesskoj-oblasti-zavislo-nlo-foto-5596.html
Ukrainian revolutionary Vsevolod Holubovych was born in Balta in 1885. He was sentenced by Bolsheviks to five years in a Gulag camp in 1921, but released. Arrested again in 1931, he was never heard from again.
Interesting place, Ukraine.
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