President Vladimir Putin said Monday the memory of Russia’s heroism and sacrifice during World War II will endure as his country marked the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the Nazi siege of ...

One of the longest and most harrowing sieges in history, the Siege of Leningrad tested the limits of human endurance. For 872 days, the Soviet city endured relentless bombardment, starvation, and ...

I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, Founder and Executive Director of Holocaust Heroes Worldwide. Rita’s ...

MINSK, 30 July (BelTA) - The exhibition "The Siege. Ration Cards", commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, has opened at the National Library of Belarus in Minsk, ...

MINSK, 27 January (BelTA) - The German-fascist siege of Leningrad hero city was lifted 82 years ago, on 27 January 1944. The Labor and Social Security Ministry detailed the support currently provided ...

Why We Fight, a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the U.S. government and directed by Frank Capra during World War II, was an attempt to explain U.S. involvement in the war and justify ...

On the way to the monument along the 300-meter alley from the Eternal Flame, the president traditionally laid flowers at one of the mass graves where his brother Viktor, who died in besieged Leningrad ...

It was a wartime gesture of support that travelled from Lanarkshire to an under-siege Leningrad, and then back again. Now two collections of World War Two letters linking Scotland and Russia are to go ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- As a child during the World War II siege of Leningrad, Galina Yakovleva learned how to make the best of fearful times. Today she's using those lessons as she brings food and ...

During the Nazis’ siege of Leningrad, which lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, the city’s radio station broadcast the sound of a metronome. Its steady tick-tock between programs reassured ...