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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
Headstones-in-storage-in-Brest.-Photo-credit-The-Together-Plan.
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
Photo credit: Dimitry Shemetkov
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
Slonim Synagogue
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
David Taubkin, a Holocaust survivor from the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus
January 28, 2020, 12:48 pm
Plight of Soviet Jewry is a new focus for Yad Vashem
Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum has teamed up with GPG to show how 98 percent of the 2.5 million Jews who came under Nazi rule in 1941 were killed
By Jewish News Reporter
Jozef Walaszczyk cutting his 100th birthday as Righteous Among the Nations were honoured in Warsaw
November 20, 2019, 3:44 pm
Shoah rescuer gets surprise 100th birthday party in Poland as righteous honoured
Jozef Walaszczyk and peers who helped save Jews during the Holocaust were recognised at an event organised by a UK-Israeli activist
By JTA
Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue (Credit: Foundation for Jewish Heritage)
September 12, 2019, 3:20 pm
Historic 145-year-old synagogue to become museum for Wales’ Jewish community
Foundation for Jewish Heritage purchased Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue with the intention of turning it into a shrine for the country's community
By Jewish News Reporter
September 6, 2019, 11:07 am
800 from former USSR united on Birthright Israel trip
Participants from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan come together in Israel for a landmark educational event
By Jenni Frazer
Synagogue in Porozovo (Google Maps )
August 17, 2019, 7:02 pm
Former shul in Belarus selling as warehouse for £4,900
Building in Porazava, which is the only known intact synagogue in the country made from rubble stone, was auctioned earlier this week
By JTA
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