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Kharkiv

Borys Romanchenko at the former Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
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Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko, who lived through 4 Nazi camps, killed in Ukraine by Russia strike

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 22, 2022

Borys Romanchenko, a 96-year-old non-Jewish Holocaust survivor who lived through four different Nazi concentration camps, was killed Friday in a Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The Buchenwald and […]

An American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee refugee relief tent along the Ukraine-Romania border. (Photo/Forward-Larry Cohler-Esses)
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‘Our city is totally destroyed’: One refugee’s story as she crosses the border from Ukraine

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward March 14, 2022
Images of damage at Hillel Kharkiv posted on Twitter by Hillel International on March 3, 2022.
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Hillel in Kharkiv bombed, none injured

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 3, 2022March 3, 2022
Jews from Ukraine arrive at a Jewish community center in Chisinau, Moldova, Feb. 25, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Salzman)
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Ukrainian Jews in Bay Area living a ‘nightmare’ from afar

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 1, 2022March 2, 2022

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