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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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Belarus
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
Estonia
Estonian Jewry Chabad Lubavitch News
Lithuania
Inside Lithuania’s struggle ....
The Times of Israel
Plaque Commemorating Abba Kovner Unveiled at LJC
The Jewish Community of Lithuania
Lithuanian story
by Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Why is Lithuania honoring perpetrators of the Holocaust?
by Grant Gochin,   The Jerusalem post
A Trove of Yiddish Artifacts Rescued From the Nazis, and Oblivion. New York Times
Remembering Jewish Names in Lithuania HuffPost
Lithuania: Report (incl. video) of excavations at site of destroyed Vilna Great Synagogue Jewish Heritage Europe
Russia
New documentary series explores centuries of Russian Jewish life
JTA

Siberian synagogue built by former child soldiers
The Time of Israel

Is Russian the new Yiddish? The time of Israel
The Secrets of the Jewish cemetery of Sestroretsk. The Canadian Jewish News
Three and a Half Lessons of Jewish-Russian History Mosaic magazine

Ukraine
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
Uzbekistan
In Bukhara 10,000 Jewish graves
The New York Times
Moldova
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
New York Times
Other
The Holocaust: Who are the missing million?
By Raffi Berg
BBC
Portraits of the Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II
Tablet
Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds
The New York Times
Why Do So Many Jewish Last Names Come From Women?
by Alexander Beider
Forward
The Yiddish Speakers Who Stayed Behind
Website Jewniverse
Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here’s The Proof.
by Alexander Beider
Forward
Search for Jewish past. The New York Times
Historic Cemeteries in Ruin Tablet
Grandson of famous Jewish WWII partisans makes resistance meaningful today. The Times of Israel
What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know  CBS News: 60 minutes
Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942 World Israel News
World's oldest man, Auschwitz survivor Yisrael Kristal dies BBC
Why are there Crosses on East Europe's Newest Holocaust memorials?  Forward
The Jews Who Saved Monticello Lux Libertas
Restoration Plans Announced for Mount Carmel Cemetery
Jewish Exponent

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