Stalin launched Operation Bagration on June 21, a fortnight after D-Day. But while the Allied armies got bogged down in Northern France, the Red Army swept through Belorussia (today’s Belarus).

Typed list published by Alexander Rosenblum concerning Jews who were killed in Zembin Belorussia ghetto in August 1941. The list was supplied by the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus (Alexander ...

Almost everyone in Old Gromyki in Belorussia in 1909 took their surname from the village’s name and were called Gromyko. So were more than 250 families in New Gromyki not far away. For practical ...

She flew 36 combat missions as a bomber-navigator, starting in June 1944 with Operation Bagration to liberate Belorussia ...

Soviet conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia -- The fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada -- The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its formation and early activity (1918) -- The struggle of the Communists ...

A most useful survey, with accompanying bibliography, of the background and history of Belorussia and Belorussian nationalism--a nationalism forged in opposition to Communism and to Russian, Polish, ...

On the 35th anniversary of the First Congress of People’s Deputies in Moscow.

Almost immediately, though, several prominent rabbinical authorities suspected the manuscript and text were clever forgeries by Friedlander. The first to expose the forgery was R. Dov Aryeh ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters call on Olympic officials to limit Israel's participation in Paris About 300 people attended the rally at the Paris Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic ...

Sydney seems to be a dangerous place. No, not because of the Aussie cricket team, though that is terrible enough. It seems that’s the world capital for knife attacks. All you need now is for ...

There are over 8,000 people imprisoned for political reasons and over 300,000 who have been forced to leave the country for the same reasons in a land of just 10 million inhabitants. And ever since th ...

Ultimately, about four in five of the pre-war Jewish population of Belorussia, over half a million people, were murdered by the Nazis and their local allies.