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This year on May 9, millions of people in the countries of former Soviet Union commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...
As Rockford marks the Holocaust Memorial Observance May 4, one woman shares her family's harrowing story of survival.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany) National Committee member Katja Rippert to the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
In the 105 days since Donald Trump began his second term as President, political observers and experts have been working to ...
The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people ... Soviet officers, who executed suspected leaders in the woods before transporting the rest back to the ...
and then shipped off to this prison where they are essentially disappeared — disappeared in the way that you would associate with the Soviet Union. Even then, people got out of the gulag.
Between 1941 and 1945, Terezin served as a ghetto-labor camp and a transit ... featuring the work of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Polish composer who fled to the Soviet Union, and Walter Kaufmann ...
From the veranda of a couple’s vacation home is a stunningly beautiful view. Brightly painted modest homes dot the high hills along the shore of this city on the Italian Riviera. On a sunny afternoon ...
Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...