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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

Soviet Red Army

Red Army veterans and supporters march in Haifa for Victory Day, celebrating victory over the Nazi regime in World War II, on May 10, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
May 3, 2022, 7:04 pm
Report: No foreign envoys invited to Israeli V-Day event due to Russia tensions
Immigration minister said to make decision in order to avoid possible diplomatic incident with Moscow or Kyiv’s ambassadors at annual ceremony marking victory over Nazis
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at military aircraft flying over the Kremlin and Red Square to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, Moscow, May 9, 2020. (Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP)
May 9, 2020, 2:52 pm
Putin calls for ‘invincible’ unity as Russians mark Victory Day under lockdown
Moscow has been forced to cancel a grand parade through Red Square as the number of sick from coronavirus in the country balloons to 200,000
By Michael MAINVILLE
In this May 5, 2020 frame from video, Alfred Abayev, head of a volunteer group searching for remains of the WW II Red Army soldiers, right, looks at projectile left on a WW II battlefield near Khulkhuta in the province of Kalmykia in southern Russia. The search is part of a broad effort by myriad volunteer groups across the country to pay tributes to the fallen WW II soldiers. (AP Photo/Radik Nurmukhamedov)
May 9, 2020, 1:23 pm
75 years after World War II, Russian volunteers search for fallen soldiers
Soviet soldiers withdrawing under Nazi onslaught had little time to properly bury comrades. Now various volunteer groups across Russia are working to locate remains and pay tribute
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Alyona Osipova
Red Army veterans and supporters march in Haifa for Victory Day, celebrating victory over the Nazi regime in World War II, on May 10, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
May 11, 2019, 6:39 am
Israeli Red Army veterans don their uniforms for Victory Day march
Hundreds parade in Haifa to mark World War II victory over the Nazi regime 74 years ago
By ToI Staff
Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
March 20, 2019, 8:55 pm
Russia ‘bewildered’ by Poland’s WWII anniversary celebration snub
Moscow says Warsaw ignoring ‘historic logic’; Polish president’s office says events will be commemorated with allies who ‘work for peace based on observing international law’
By AFP
Joseph Schneider holds a pistol. (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
May 30, 2018, 2:56 pm
Family of refusenik puts on display the world’s only photos of Soviet gulag life
Archive that was smuggled out in a picture frame by Holocaust survivor, Red Army veteran and Zionist activist Joseph Schneider is now housed at the National Library of Israel
By Yaakov Schwartz
In this Monday, May 21, 2018, photo, Sue Wilkins, director of education at The International Museum of World War II, in Natick, Mass., stands near a 1933 propaganda poster, right, that praised the Nazi organization German Labor Front, which was created after the Nazis eliminated trade unions. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
May 26, 2018, 6:24 pm
From snipers to moms: World War II exhibit focuses on women
Museum explores unconventional roles adopted by women, including paratrooping Soviet nurses and French resistance fighters who used strollers to smuggle weapons behind Nazi lines
By SARAH BETANCOURT
A man walks in front of a statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre of 1940, Friday, May 4, 2018, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
May 5, 2018, 8:00 am
Polish officials clash with US city over WWII statue’s removal
Monument honoring victims of a 1940 Soviet massacre of Poles removed from Jersey City plaza, sparking war of words
By AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, January 29, 2018. (Vasily Maximov/AFP)
January 30, 2018, 10:01 pm
Drawing on politics of memory, Netanyahu working hard to woo Putin
Israeli leader plays heavy on Jewish-Russian bond forged from sufferings of both peoples during Second World War
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Memorial at mound of victims' ashes, Sobibor (photo: public domain)
January 12, 2018, 8:54 pm
Arkady Wajspapir, key figure in Sobibor Uprising, dies at 96
The 1943 uprising, which took the German guards by utter surprise, is widely considered a symbol of the courage of Jewish resistance fighters
By JTA
Karin Felix, who served as a guide at the Reichstag parliament building for a quarter-century, poses in front the Reichstag building in Berlin on November 23, 2017. (AFP/John MacDougall)
January 12, 2018, 4:56 pm
Berlin woman revives Red Army ghosts in Reichstag graffiti
Messages scrawled on walls of parliament building by Soviet soldiers remind Germans of horror and humanity of war
By Deborah Cole
This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)
November 7, 2017, 10:02 am
Russian official wrongly claims Soviets saved Bulgarian Jews from deportation
After monument defaced, Moscow says it saved 50,000 Jews in WWII, but the ‘Red Army was thousands of kilometers away’ at the time
By JTA
Russian-Israeli World War II veterans take part in the Veterans Day parade in honor of the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany, in the center of Jerusalem. May 9, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
May 9, 2017, 7:02 pm
Israeli Red Army veterans show off their medals for Victory Day
Parades held around the country to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany 72 years ago
By ToI Staff
Joachim Kozlowski from the Volksbund charity that takes care of war graves, works at a mass grave in the town of Seelow 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 8, 2017. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP)
May 8, 2017, 5:16 pm
Remains of 21 Red Army soldiers found in mass grave near Berlin
Remains of Soviet soldiers discovered in Seelow, east of German capital; more are likely to be unearthed
By AP
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross’s haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council’s infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski — who thought himself a Jewish ‘savior’
By Matt Lebovic
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