In Brest, Belarus, a commemorative ceremony took place at the monument to prisoners of the Jewish ghetto. The event, organized by the Jewish community of Brest, was well attended... [...];
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Monday,April 26, 2010

Sixty-five years ago, in occupied Minsk, the Nazi invaders eliminated the last prisoners of the Minsk ghetto. This sorrowful date reminds us of the terrible ordeals that befell our people during the Great Patriotic War... [...];
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Thursday,October 23, 2008

A group of Siena College students made their second summer trip to restore a Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis during World War II and neglected by generations of villagers in Rubezhevichi, Belarus. [...];
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Tuesday,August 19, 2008

Belarusian Jews celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Bobruisk Jewish community. The head of the Bobruisk community, Leonid Rubinstein, marked the celebration by writing a musical about its history that was perforned by local children and adults. [...];
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Tuesday,July 1, 2008

A group from an American Catholic college restored a Jewish cemetery in a Belarusian village. They found and erected 120 toppled gravestones at the Rubiazhevichi cemetery in 3 days. [...];
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Wednesday,June 4, 2008

Belarusian Protestants celebrated the 60th anniversary of Israel with prayer. About 2,000 Belarusians prayed for the Jewish people and for peace in Israel. [...];
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Wednesday,May 21, 2008

A Belarusian Jewish leader says vandals painted swastikas and graffiti on a Holocaust memorial site to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth. Friedrich Falevich says the site in the town of Slutsk, south of the capital, Minsk, is being cleaned. [...];
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Thursday,April 24, 2008

Bones from an ancient Jewish cemetery found during the reconstruction of a stadium in Belarus will be reburied. The stadium in Gomel was built soon after World War II on the site of an ancient Jewish cemetery. Some of the bones were reinterred during the original construction, while others remained under the stadium. [...];
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Monday,April 14, 2008

A four-day event for children, "Israel: Young Country with Ancient History," is being held in the capital city of Minsk. The event was organized by the cultural and information center of the Israeli Embassy and the Minsk Central Children's Library. [...];
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Thursday,April 10, 2008

Holocaust monument has been desecrated in Brest, the Belarusian news agency Belapan reported on 11 February, quoting the chairman of the Brest Jewish community, Barys Kruk. According to Kruk, vandals have burnt the flowers and wreaths that had been laid at the monument. [...];
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Monday,February 11, 2008