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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Belarus Jews

Lidia Katliarski, right, with her husband and collaborator, Igor Katliarski, in front of one of their painted bomb shelters in Nahariya, spring 2024. (Lidia Katliarski)
July 5, 2024, 11:37 am
After fleeing Ukraine war, wife-husband artist duo paint bomb shelters near Lebanon
Six miles from the Lebanese border, new immigrants Lidia and Igor Katliarski bring life to concrete havens by covering them with murals, giving locals a momentary respite from war
By Diana Bletter
Members of The Together Plan catalog gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 3, 2023, 3:32 am
A new memorial rises up from the rubble of a Belarus cemetery destroyed by the Nazis
Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Then-Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in an undated photo distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)
April 21, 2023, 11:00 pm
Israel ends expedited immigration track for Russians and Belarusians fleeing war
Immigration Ministry will maintain fast-tracked program for Ukrainians and special cases, but says it wants to focus on absorbing the massive wave of people who arrived last year
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
New immigrant children from Ukraine take part in a special camp in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam to teach them Hebrew and prepare them for the coming school year in the summer of 2022. (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
August 31, 2022, 6:57 am
Israeli schools ready for influx of Ukrainian, Russian immigrants as opening nears
With limited Hebrew and traumas from war, over 2,600 refugee children prepare to face their next challenge: the Israeli education system
By Judah Ari Gross
Andrei Zeltzer stands with a hunting rifle behind the door of his home in Minsk, Belarus on Sept. 29, 2021. (Maria Uspenskaya)
October 7, 2021, 6:08 am
Death of Jewish dissident in Belarus prompts protests and arrests
Security forces shot dead Andrei Zeltzer, a 31-year-old programmer, during a raid at his home in Minsk
By JTA
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks with people after the wreath laying ceremony at Mound of Glory war memorial marking Independence Day, on the outskirts of the capital Minsk, Belarus, July 3, 2021. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
July 7, 2021, 1:37 am
Israel slams ‘unacceptable’ remarks by Belarus leader that world bows to Jews
Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Belarusian chargé d’affaires to express anger over comments by Lukashenko at WWII memorial; embassy claims comments ‘distorted’ by media
By ToI Staff and JTA
Lyubov Arkhiptsova-Volchek at her home in Hlusk, Belarus, March 2021. (From the Depths via JTA)
April 8, 2021, 8:54 pm
‘Not too late to show gratitude’: Group offers new home to WWII rescuers of Jews
Holocaust awareness organization raises money to pay for renovated apartments for Righteous Among the Nations living in abject poverty
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The headquarters of the Jewish Community of Gomel, Belarus. (Jews.Bel via JTA)
March 17, 2021, 6:47 pm
Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on synagogue in Belarus
Swastika and SS bolts daubed on house of worship in city of Gomel; police have no suspects in rare incident
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Protesters with old Belarusian national flags march during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, September 20, 2020. (AP Photo/TUT.by)
December 18, 2020, 6:16 am
Belarus Holocaust survivor won’t waver after hefty fine for flying protest flag
87-year-old Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who survived WWII hiding in the Urals and later became a sharpshooter for her country’s military: ‘This symbol unites our whole society’
By Joe Baur
Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli. (Wikemedia commons)
November 6, 2020, 12:34 pm
Long-dead Jewish poet given Christian reburial in Belarus
Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli, died in Khazakstan in 1941; his remains were repatriated to Belarus 79 years later
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Belarusian opposition supporters rally in the center of Minsk, Belarus, on August 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
August 19, 2020, 9:07 am
In Belarus, ‘Europe’s last dictatorship,’ Jews fear police but not anti-Semitism
As mass protests build against Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, Jewish communal organizations maintain careful policy of political neutrality
By Sam Sokol
Riot police disperse protesters after polls closed in the presidential election, in Minsk, Belarus on August 9, 2020. (Photo by Siarhei LESKIEC / AFP)
August 14, 2020, 5:42 am
In Belarus, young Jews among those picked up and jailed amid police crackdown
As protests rock Minsk following election widely seen as rigged, authorities mete out a harsh response, including against Jews, whether they’re involved in demonstrations or not
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kirk Douglas at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, in 1988. (Douglas Collection via JTA)
February 10, 2020, 11:46 pm
Belarus Jews hold memorial for its famous descendant, Kirk Douglas
Born Issur Danielovitch, Hollywood movie star’s Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents came from the Mogilev region
By Marcy Oster
Lithuania's Ninth Fort, a 19th century bunker complex that the Nazis and their helpers turned into a camp and execution area. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 1, 2019, 8:41 am
Lithuanian soldiers, officials honor late chaplain of Holocaust-era death squad
Vitkija holds plaque ceremony for Zenonas Ignatavičius of 12th Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalion, whose troops were responsible for killing over 15,000 Jews in October 1941
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Participants at a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk, Belarus, April 4, 2019. (Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
May 22, 2019, 2:19 am
In Belarus, anti-Semitism erupts when Jews open eatery near Stalin-era gravesite
Protests against a Minsk restaurant have turned violent and anti-Semitic, challenging the local Jewish population and the country’s authoritarian government
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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