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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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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Lioudmila Ivanovna Vybornova OBITUARY
Lucy was a childhood survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and as such is a Veteran of World War II. She received her Associates Degree as a draftsman from a technical school in Leningrad (now St ...
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The siege of Leningrad
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'No happy paintings': Dozens of art works by Canadian war artist at Calgary exhibit
Averns said the second painting shows the mass graves commemorating the German siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days and ...
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Paul Lowe, conflict photographer and teacher lauded for Sarajevo siege photographs, dies, aged 60
The siege was more than a year longer than the siege of Leningrad, and was the longest blockade of a capital city in the history of modern warfare Lowe arrived in Sarajevo in June 1992 ...
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How Sevastopol heroically held out under siege for eight months during WWII (PHOTOS)
The main base of the Black Sea Fleet was blockaded from land and withstood two assaults by superior enemy forces. The third, ...