I am not in favour of capital punishment, but if anyone should have been hanged at Nuremberg in 1946 it was Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, the SS general responsible for setting up Auschwitz in 1940, ...

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 ...

Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory. Records created by the Extraordinary Commission's national-, republic-, oblast-, and raion-level ...

Aron Bell, who had been a teenage member of a daring brigade of Jewish partisans that during World War II attacked German troops in western Belorussia and rescued some 1,200 Jews from near-certain ...

His three older brothers led the Bielski partisans, which attacked Nazi soldiers and saved 1,200 fellow Jews. Aron was a scout who ferried warnings to a ghetto. By Richard Sandomir Aron Bell, who had ...

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Minsk, March 14 (AZERTAC). Members of the standing committee on foreign and CIS affairs of the House of Representatives recommended ratify Belorussia-Azerbaijan intergovernmental agreement on ...

December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing crisis in one ...

Galina Brok-Beltsova, who has died aged 99, was the last survivor of Stalin’s three female air regiments. She enlisted in the Red Army aged 16 in 1941 and flew 36 combat missions as a bomber-navigator ...

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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 ...

In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet Republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia - signed a treaty dissolving the USSR. They did it without asking the other republics, and against the wishes of ...