Belarus

Belarus Jewish community holds memorial for Kirk Douglas, its most famous descendant

Douglas was born in New York state to Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents from the Mogilev region of Belarus.

By Marcy Oster February 10, 2020 12:55 pm

The former synagogue of Porazava, Belarus. (Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

Former synagogue in Belarus selling as warehouse for $6,000

The 19th century building in Porazava is the country’s only intact one of its kind built almost entirely from rubble stone.

August 15, 2019 1:24 pm

Remains of over 1,000 Holocaust victims uncovered during construction work reburied in Belarus

The mass grave found in Brest in February contained human remains belonging to adults and children, as well as clothes, shoes and other personal items.

May 22, 2019 7:36 am

People attending a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk on April 4, 2019. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images)

In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 21, 2019 3:05 pm

Remains of hundreds of bodies discovered at former Jewish ghetto of Brest, Belarus

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 21, 2019 7:38 pm

Armenia’s capital honors Holocaust survivor who coined the term ‘genocide’

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 31, 2018 7:40 am

Immigrant to Israel from Belarus convicted for trying to join Islamic State

December 28, 2017 5:32 am

Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century

November 3, 2017 10:57 am

Belarus congregation approved construction atop former Jewish cemetery

September 4, 2017 7:11 am

In rare move, Belarus Jews sound alarm over cemetery construction plan

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 1, 2017 8:27 am

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