USSR
On this day: Communist Bulgaria downs El Al flight 402, killing all 58 people onboard
On this day in 1955, Bulgarian MiG fighters brought down El Al Flight 402, killing all 58 people aboard and setting off a Cold War dispute over responsibility and justice.
Protests shake Iran: The US must choose its next move wisely - opinion
Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review
The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism
Russian authorities stage rabbi’s death to nab alleged terrorists
An undercover counterterrorism agent approached the suspects and offered to kill Rabbi Aryeh Leib Tkatch, chairman of the Jewish Community of Krasnodar, if they accepted him into their ranks.
New program brings history of Holocaust in USSR to Israeli students
GPG program to be operated with Beit Lohamei Haghetaot
Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav
VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.
Why does Israel celebrate VE Day on a different date to Europe?
While most western European countries hold Victory in Europe celebrations on May 8, the official end of the conflict, Israel holds its commemorations on May 9.
‘Black January’ became the starting point of Azerbaijan’s independence
Despite bloody events in Baku, the day of January 20, 1990, became a page of heroism in the history of the struggle for the independence and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
Reflecting on Raoul Wallenberg’s fate 75 years after his disappearance
On January 17, 1945 – 75 years ago – Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet military intelligence apparatus, never to be seen again.
Letters of Jews from the USSR, 1941-1945
The letters, which were found in Yad Vashem’s Archive as well as other archives and translated into English, open a window into the world of Soviet Jewish thoughts and feelings at that time.
Soviet spy who allegedly thwarted Nazi plot to murder Roosevelt dies
She was involved in Operation Long-Jump was an alleged Nazi plot to murder Stalin, Roosevelt and Truman during the 1943 Tehran Summit.
The housewives who took on the USSR to help Soviet Jewry
How a women's protest group made a difference by raising the cause of Soviet Jewish political prisoners during the Cold War.
Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews
Many of the university's programs address gender equality, health and domestic violence.
