On April 17, 1970 a significant event took place in the cultural life of our republic – P.A. Oyunskiy’s Literary Museum, the first in Yakutia, was opened. Platon Alekseevich Oyunskiy, outstanding public man, statesman, international writer, scholar, consecrated his life to the good of his nation. His dynamic revolutionary, public,…

“A time to heal” The Story of the Children’s Home in Otwock, Poland Approximately one and a half million of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust were children. The number of children who survived is estimated in the thousands. Some children were able to escape by hiding, finding…

“An attempt to right – even slightly – the wrong that was being caused to the murdered people” Nazi Germany occupied the region of Volhynia in North West Ukraine in June-July 1941. Only few of the Jews were able to escape from the rapidly advancing German army, and soon the…

“…the courage that would accompany them for the rest of their lives, and which continues to guide the next generations of the family.”” On the eve of the German occupation, Raseiniai had a bustling Jewish community of some 2,000 Jewish residents, representing one-third of the townlet’s population. The Community had…