Laura and Ben Sheridan knew only fragments about Ben’s uncle, Ben Zion Bernstein – the eldest of six children in a Russian ...

The site is a cemetery for victims of Stalinist repression. The makeshift cross-shaped monument had replaced an earlier Polish memorial that was taken down without notice in 2023.

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GIJN spoke to Xu and Ramírez about what the eight-month, cross-border investigation entailed, what it revealed, and what they learned in the process. The Border Graves Investigation team consisted of ...

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A military honor guard carries the flag-draped casket of Army 1st Lt. Nathan Baskind to his final resting place at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 23, 2024.

The crosses were seen as the Lithuanian people’s opposition to Soviet suppression. A €2 coin, featuring the Hill of Crosses, minted by the Lithuanian authorities in 2020.

Russian police have put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Lithuania's culture minister, and members of the previous Latvian parliament on a wanted list for destroying Soviet-era monuments ...

July 2023, Oreshek (Leningrad oblast): a plaque with the names of Polish and Lithuanian prisoners at the Oreshek fortress was dismantled. August/September 2023, Rudnik near Vorkuta (Komi Republic): a ...