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.
Octavian Goga, who enacted laws stripping a third of Romania's Jews of citizenship, has a bust in Chisinau
Rudolfo Graziani, known as the Butcher of Fezzan and the Butcher of Ethiopia, has a children's park named after him
While Subhas Chandra Bose is seen by some as a freedom fighter, his alliance with Hitler and the Waffen-SS cannot be ignored
The country where Adolf Hitler came to power has a mixed history on Holocaust memory
Overlooking the Jizera Mountains is a massive granite statue of the 1939 Iron Cross, the Second Class Nazi military award
Multiple honors for Ferdinand Porsche and his son, Ferry
Editor’s note: Since this article was originally published on Jan. 26, 2021, a town in Belgium has voted to remove a sculpture honoring Latvian collaborators with the Nazis. The Forward has also documented more than 1,000 additional streets named for and monuments honoring such dubious figures –- 625 in countries that were on our original…
Armenian nationalist Garegin Nzhdeh, whose soldiers served the Third Reich, has 20 streets named after him
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