Minsk

In Belarus, young Jews among those picked off street and jailed amid police crackdown on protesters

Artur Raisky and Albert Kengerli had tried to avoid the mass protests against their native country’s autocratic leader, but police arrested them anyway.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 13, 2020 11:17 am

Belarus Jews mourn Poway synagogue victim at community’s largest event

Many of the 600 participants at Minsk’s Limmud conference wept at a survivor’s televised account of the shooting.

May 5, 2019 8:04 am

Holocaust monuments vandalized in Germany, Belarus

In one incident, paint was poured on a commemoration site in Minsk where Nazis killed 5,000 Jews in one day; in another, firecrackers were used to deface the plaque of a German former concentration camp.

July 17, 2016 7:08 am