The city of Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia), has a medieval historic center where the local cemetery is ...

Albert Farhy has held onto a button-sized piece of yellow cloth cut into the shape of a star that the Nazis forced him to ...

Russian soldiers who defected and fled Russia since the start of the war with Ukraine speak about their reasons for leaving ...

Tuchola prisoner-of-war camp in northern Poland ... Soviet POWs to Auschwitz shortly after the beginning of their war against the Soviet Union in 1941. The exact number who perished is unknown.

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/. Germany is about to hand over to Russia the first batch of digitized archive information about Soviet prisoners of war who had been kept at German camps during World War II.

Why would the main character of Sasha Vasilyuk’s sharply observed first novel — an elderly Ukrainian veteran named Yefim Shulman, who was wounded in a long-ago World War II battle — set fire to his ...

The Nazis saw Soviet prisoners of war as their enemies for political reasons, and also because they wrongly believed that they were racially ‘inferior’. Of the 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of ...

Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies and Polish political prisoners. Alice Lok Cahana, a survivor of Auschwitz, describes the loss of her family members. The report also includes testimony from Oscar ...

This was to be a war of annihilation. In the weeks after their invasion of the Soviet Union the Germans took 3 million Soviet prisoners. Within 9 months 2 million of them were dead, many starved ...

OSLO, July 11. /TASS/. Vandals have outraged at a monument to Soviet prisoners of war located near the town of Hamaroy in Norway’s northern Norland county, the Russian Consulate General in ...

but Russian prisoners of war. Kazimierz Smolen, a Polish political prisoner at Auschwitz, remembers Soviet prisoners of war arriving in the autumn of 1941. “It was October. I remember that it ...

The cadets of this camp were, Soviet prisoners of war - exhausted, psychologically crushed, dying of hunger. Nazi recruiters offered them salvation in exchange for consent join the SS. After ...