I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, ...
One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...
The idea was revolutionary – yet there was something ancient at its heart. The scientist Nikolai Vavilov, arriving in ...
The main base of the Black Sea Fleet was blockaded from land and withstood two assaults by superior enemy forces. The third, ...
Lucy was a childhood survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and as such is a Veteran of World War II. She received her Associates Degree as a draftsman from a technical school in Leningrad (now St ...
The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin announced via video conference the launch of the nuclear icebreaker "Chukotka." "I allow ...
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin announced via video conference the launch of the nuclear icebreaker "Chukotka." "I allow you ...
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Katie Sanders Their lives were intertwined by war, the siege of Leningrad, and 40 years as friends working in the same factory. But romance blossomed only after both became widowers. Valentina was ...
We spend most of the hour with Simon Parkin, author of "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and their Impossible Choice." The book tells the extraordinary and true story of the ...