USSR
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Dina Pronicheva (born Dina Mironovna Wasserman) was a Jewish actress at the Kyiv Puppet Theatre and one of the very few people—fewer than 30—who survived the mass executions at the Babi Yar ravine. Her detailed testimony remains one of the most significant eyewitness accounts of the atrocity carried out by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and local…
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It wasn’t only the Nazis who used the railway for mass deportations. In the pre-dawn hours of June 14, 1941, a synchronized knock echoed across thousands of doors in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Families were awoken by officers of the Soviet secret police (NKVD), read a brief decree, and given mere hours to pack a…
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In May 1944, one of the most tragic forced deportations of the twentieth century began when the government of the Soviet Union ordered the mass expulsion of more than 200,000 Crimean Tartars from their homeland in Crimea. The Soviet authorities, led by Joseph Stalin, accused the entire Tartar population of collaborating with the German army…
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Some of you may know that I’m a rock fan, and one of my favourite bands is Queensrÿche(with Geoff Tate). One song in particular has always stayed with me: “Home Again.” The song explores the emotional toll of war from two perspectives — a father on the battlefield and his daughter waiting for him at…
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When I say “the Jews who fought alongside the Nazis,” it really was a case of the enemy of my enemy—is my friend, or rather they had a common enemy. The photograph above is of Finnish Jewish soldiers on leave during Rosh Hashanah in front of the synagogue in Turku, Finland, in 1943. Finland’s involvement…
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