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Transnistria: the few Jews left there eye an escape
by Cnaan Liphshiiz,   JTA
50 years ago: the letter of the eighteen
Tablet
Lithuanian synagogue reopens
The Times of Israel
A new Holocaust memorial in Lithuania
Jewish Renaissance
Rebecca Miller was a Jewish migrant, one of the many thousands who came to Britain in the early 1900s from Russia...
From Russia with Love: A Migration Story
BBC
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The mass grave was discovered as building work began on an elite apartment block...
Uncovering Nazi massacre of Jews on Belarus building site
By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Brest, Belarus
The  Jewish faces from Belarus
Exhibition
Journey to the Lands of the Ancestors by Danny Berchenko
Belarus: Comprehensive survey of Jewish cemeteries announced  Jewish Heritage Europe
Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century. The Times of Israel
More than 1,000 victims of the Holocaust were buried Wednesday in Belarus, some 70 years after they were killed in the genocide....
Buried after 70 years
By Sasha Ingber,  NPR
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Ukraine is where the Holocaust began
By Carl Gershman, Washington Post
Jews have lived in Ukraine for such a long time that their arrival here predates even the first recorded use of the country’s name...
Who are the Jews of Ukraine?
By Cnaan Liphshiz,  JTA
"Israeli author Amos Oz watched his daughter venture to where he has never been: the Holocaust-ravaged Ukrainian hometown...."
Between Rivne and Jerusalem
JPost
Mezuzah is affixed to Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine
Jewish Heritage Europe
Olevsk, a sleepy if ancient town deep in the backwoods of Ukraine, became part of my life in 2003 when I came across a dozen testimonies about vicious pogroms there at the beginning of the German-Soviet war of 1941 to 1945. In the testimonies, survivors and witnesses describe how Jews were beaten, humiliated, and mutilated in the center of town in the summer of 1941. Many of their tormentors ......
Ukrainian Holocaust Perpetrators Are Being Honored in Place of Their Victims
By Jared McBride
Tablet
In the Vernadsky Library by Jake Marmer
Tablet
The story about Rhea Clyman (Rachel Klayman)
UJE Initiatives
Thriving Jewish Life in Ukraine: Could I Ever Have Imagined It?
eJewishPhilanthropy
The Jewish Pilgrims are in the Ukrainian City of Uman Haaretz
Preparing for Passover in Ukraine’s last shtetl  Jewish Telegraph Agency
"How Lenin’s Great-Grandfather, a Convert, Informed on the Jews"
Lenin from Volhynia
The Librarians
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Following a politician’s tirade against a Jewish mayor in Moldova convicted of fraud, the country’s Jewish community condemned “hate speech’s use as an instrument of political struggle.”  Continue
The times of Israel
Pogrom in Kishinev: Before the Holocaust
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