There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

On January 20, 2009 Rod Adams spoke with Alexandra Prokopenko to get a local view of the effects on Eastern Europe of the Ukraine/Russia natural gas supply dispute. Alexandra is a citizen of Belarus who currently lives and works in Sweden. Her husband is living in Kiev, Ukraine and she speaks to him...

You're a failed cold-war state with a predilection for repressing your native gay and lesbian population and you have a pesky editor of a gay website calling your government out for all its human right violations. So what do you do? Well, if you're Belarus, you do what you do with all diss...

JewishGen has added 120,000 new records, in various databases. Explore these databases at the links indicated below. JewishGen Holocaust Database additions - 4,000 Hidden Children in France (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants - OSE); Persons transferred from Rhodes to Ferramonti Di Tarsia Internment Camp...

BELLEVILLE, Mich., July 10 -- Sen. John McCain ventured to an auto-parts supplier in this hard-hit Detroit suburb to express sympathy for those affected by Michigan's economic malaise and to talk up his ideas for creating jobs in the region....

Workers rebuilding a sports stadium on the site of an 18th century Jewish cemetery in Belarus say they have no choice but to consign the bones to city dumps. "It's impossible to pack an entire cemetery into sacks," said worker Mikhail Gubets, adding that he stopped counting the skulls when the numbe...

If your family has roots in Gomel, Belarus, read this AP story about the desecration of an 18th century Jewish cemetery via the rebuilding of a sports stadium. Before World War II, Belarus was home to some 1 million Jews; 800,000 died in the Holocaust. Today there are about 27,000 Jews in the countr...

asset-swap » Belarus » BoE » central-bank » ECB » Fed » mass-purchases » MBS » monetary-policy » Few years ago I had dinner with deputy governor of the central bank of Belarus (for those who do not now where it is, it is an Eastern neighbor of Po...

[Compare my comments from a fews days ago on BelaRus to the info. contained in the article below...Did I mention: Sanctions? Yes. "Democratic" Opposition party? Yes. "Spontaneous"Gathering in a square? Yes, in my original draft, which I ended up editing out due to clutt...

    Our Russian student--the one I've been telling you about in previous blogs--is having a difficult time. When she and her husband came to Israel, he wrote "Christian" on his citizenship application form. His wife, who is a Russian Jew, wrote, "Jew." Belarus doesn't allow du...