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Thanks to a chance find on the Hungarian Military History Archives, I happened upon my closest living relatives, in Israel and in Hungary.

Examining Secret Services Archive documents and talking to a 92-year-old ex-spy to learn about my grandparents' 1949 aliyah attempt.

My grandfather survived the Holocaust in Hungary and went to Germany. All this was a family secret. A nonagenarian now told me the back...

A Yiddish translator's view on the difficulties of deciphering Yiddish handwriting.

My quest to learn about my grandfather's fate in Holocaust-era Hungary and his attempt to make aliyah through Germany.

Why Jews were considered a counterinsurgent nationality in Soviet Ukraine and how this helped them from turning "hostages."

How the Jewish self-defense network in Ukraine helped pogrom refugees retake and rebuild their home shtetls? Read and find out!

How Jewish self-defense groups in Ukraine helped pogrom refugees to survive – and vice versa.

Adventures in (and outside of) the archives of post-Soviet intelligence services.

I might just be the only foreigner to have ever visited the archive of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense. It took me half a decade.

Jacob Rachlis headed a mighty Jewish paramilitary network in Ukraine. I am now trying to learn more about him and tell you what I know.

Top to bottom: the Jewish Military Section's, the Poalei-Tsion's, and the Vitebsk Jewish Section's Di royte armey Two Dovids In February...

In early 2022, I was contacted by Rachel,[1] an Australian 30-something who had in his possession a very interesting piece of...