EU: Chisinau: Ruinen (1942) through time

Chisinau 1941–1942 8 photos of this spot

8 photographs taken at the same spot in Chisinau, spanning 1941–1942 — 8 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A tram depot in Chisinau is pictured in 1941, the year the Bessarabian capital came under German and Romanian occupation during the opening months of the Second World War. The image documents the city's public transit infrastructure at that turning point.

EU: Chisinau: Straßenbahndepot (1941) 1941 A tram depot in Chisinau is pictured in 1941, the year the Bessarabian capital came under German and Romanian occupation during the opening months of the Second World War. The image documents the city's public transit infrastructure at that turning point.

EU: Chisinau: Metropolie (1941) 1941 The Nativity Cathedral, known locally as the Metropolie, stood at the center of Chisinau's civic life; this 1941 photograph captures the building amid the upheaval that followed the Axis occupation of Bessarabia that year.

EU: Chisinau: OSIN-Tankstelle (1941) 1941 An OSIN filling station in Chisinau is shown in this 1941 photograph, a glimpse of the city's commercial infrastructure at the moment Bessarabia passed from Soviet into Romanian and German control during the Second World War.

EU: Chisinau: Ruinen (1942) 1942 Ruins in Chisinau are documented in this 1942 photograph, evidence of the destruction the city suffered as fighting and occupation swept through Bessarabia during the Second World War.

EU: Chisinau: Ausgebrannte Straße (1942) 1942 A burned-out street in Chisinau is captured in this 1942 photograph, part of a wartime record of the damage inflicted on the city during its occupation in the Second World War.

EU: Chisinau: Zerstörter Marktplatz (1942) 1942 This 1942 photograph shows Chisinau's marketplace in ruins, a record of the destruction the city's commercial center suffered during the fighting and occupation of the Second World War.

EU: Chisinau: Straße, Vordergrund Kinder (1942) 1942 A Chisinau street scene from 1942 shows children in the foreground, one of a series of photographs documenting daily life in the city during its wartime occupation.

EU: Chisinau: Straße mit Polizist (1942) 1942 A policeman stands watch on a Chisinau street in this 1942 photograph, part of a series recording conditions in the city during the German and Romanian occupation of Bessarabia in the Second World War.