Siege of Leningrad survivor Rita Davidova shares her story
I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, ...
How a band of Russian botanists defended their plants from Hitler
One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...
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Russian prosecutor seeks to recognize siege of Leningrad as genocide
MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. A St. Petersburg Prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to recognize the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people, the press service of the Russian ...
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The Scientists Who Hoarded Seeds Even as They Were Starving
In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum ...
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Russia marks 80 years since breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad
Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege. Putin was born and ...
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Putin lays flowers at monument dedicated to Siege of Leningrad
KIROVSK /Leningrad Region/, January 27. /TASS/. On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at a monument at Nevsky Pyatachok (Neva ...