Lev Golinkin is a regular contributor to the Forward whose work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com. His memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, chronicles his immigration from Ukraine.
The country ended World War II with more Jews resident than when the war started
Xhaver Deva, who helped create the SS Skanderbeg, has two streets named after him in Mitrovica and Pristina
A stone commemorating Nazi collaborators of Free Corps Denmark was detonated by veterans of the Danish resistance, then reconstructed
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, photographs showcase how white supremacists around the world embrace fascist forebears
On Feb. 13, 2021, 300 neo-Nazis marched in Madrid to commemorate a battle fought by the Blue Division, a formation of Spanish volunteers who fought for the Third Reich
In Bradford, a plaque celebrates the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, the brainchild of war criminal Alfred Rosenberg
In Yelanskaya, a memorial complex employs a common whitewashing tactic: lumping both problematic and non-problematic figures into a single pantheon of “heroes"
Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust history, nonetheless currently has at least 162 streets and schools named for Nazis and their collaborators, a Forward investigation has found. These public honorings of people who committed horrific atrocities during World War II persist despite Germany’s strict laws against displaying Nazi…
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