Belarus

Novogrudok - then and now. Pic: The Together Plan

May 27, 2026, 6:27 pm

Why was a World War II ghetto site in Belarus abruptly sold to a private buyer?

SPECIAL REPORT: Last year Novogrudok's council signed an agreement, with Jewish community participation, to develop a major memorial. What happened next has mystified - and concerned - many

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 12, 2026, 4:59 pm

The Together Plan spotlights efforts to rediscover Eastern European Jewish life

British Jewish charity also hosting UK premiere of Brest Jewish Cemetery documentary as part of series of heritage events about Eastern Europe

By Michelle Rosenberg

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Aron Bell, center, light candles at an unveiling ceremony of a monument to the Heroes of Resistance at Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos during the World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia, June 4, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

September 26, 2025, 11:19 am

Aron Bell, last of the Bielski brothers whose famed brigade saved 1,200 Jews, dies at 98

The youngest of the Jewish partisan brothers, Bell would sneak into the nearby ghetto to help convince imprisoned Jews to escape.

By Grace Gilson (JTA)

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July 29, 2025, 9:30 am

‘Historical justice done’ as Belarus cemetery memorial officially opened

More than 1200 remnant gravestones of Brest-Litovsk Jews buried on the land and countless others who perished in the Holocaust finally honoured

By Michelle Rosenberg

July 11, 2025, 7:47 am

Belarus takes steps to establish a Holocaust and resistance museum

EXCLUSIVE: Institution in Novogrudok will memorialise 11,000 victims of Nazi atrocities and 250 ghetto prisoners who dug their way to freedom

By Michelle Rosenberg

Belarus' servicemen excavate a mass grave for the prisoners of a Jewish ghetto set up by the Nazis during World War II in the city of Brest. Sergei Gapon/Getty

September 19, 2024, 11:52 am

Holocaust mass grave found in Belarus

The remains of 12 adults and 11 children were uncovered in Strešyn, a town occupied by the Nazis, where Jews accounted for nearly 30% of the population in 1939

By Michelle Rosenberg

Gravestones from the Brest-Litovsk (Brisk) Jewish cemetery discovered at the site of the Warbourg Colony in 2016 Photo credit The Together Plan

May 15, 2024, 10:52 am

Crowdfunding campaign for Belarus Jewish memorial

Charity wants £100,000 to build memorial in Brest-Litovsk

By Jenni Frazer

Debra Brunner member of BNI Chipping Chapter Photo credit - Ankit Govind TAG Visual Media

May 9, 2024, 12:19 pm

North London business group set to cycle for memorial honouring 26,000 Holocaust victims

BNI in Mill Hill supports £100k fundraising efforts to preserve 1200 remnants of desecrated headstones in Belarus

By Michelle Rosenberg

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September 22, 2023, 2:35 pm

Campaign launched to honour memories of 20,000 Holocaust victims in Belarus

1200 remnants of desecrated headstones found, preserved and put together in new memorial

By Michelle Rosenberg

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli. (Wikemedia commons via Times of Israel)

November 6, 2020, 1:07 pm

Jewish poet given Christian burial in Belarus

Remains of Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli, were laid to rest at a Christian cemetery in Minsk under a crucifix

By JTA

September 1, 2020, 12:46 pm

Grandmother, 89, thanked for making teddy bears for Jewish orphans in Belarus

Lily Genztler from Chigwell used her time during lockdown to make the cuddly toys, which Jewish charity The Together Plan sends to needy children

By Jewish News Reporter

August 17, 2020, 3:10 pm

OPINION: In solidarity with the truth in Minsk

As protestors take to the streets in Belarus, Andrew Gilbert reflects on his experiences in the former Soviet Union and the need to fight for the truth

By Andrew Gilbert

A JDC employee, right, delivers an aid package to a Jewish woman

July 11, 2020, 3:19 pm

Young come to rescue of vulnerable Russian-speaking Jews

They’re confined to four walls, some in dilapidated homes. For some, the will to live is slipping away'

By Jewish News Reporter

June 26, 2020, 9:47 am

No bids come through for Slonim’s Great Synagogue

UK-based Foundation for Jewish Heritage said it had been working with local partners on the synagogue’s preservation

By Jewish News Reporter

Around 800 Jews from the former Soviet Union took part in a 10-day Birthright Israel visit near the Gaza border

February 20, 2020, 12:30 pm

Russian-speaking Jews visit Israel’s Gaza-border communities

Around 800 visitors from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan attended the ‘Taglit in the Flourishing Desert’ event

By Jewish News Reporter

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