ABC Action News reporter Michael Paluska sat down with Holocaust survivor Rudolf Kosolapov to talk about his journey to safety and memories of the Holocaust.

It was the longest siege in modern history until the ... Almost a million people were evacuated from Leningrad between 1941 and 1943 through the giant Ladoga Lake, which came under regular German ...

The Red Army broke the nearly two-and-a-half year blockade on Jan. 19, 1943 ... 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege.

The siege lasted until January 27 ... Rita recalled leaving Leningrad. “In September 1943, my father feared for the lives of my mother, grandmother and I, so we boarded a boat that resembled ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been ...

then called Leningrad, on the banks of the Neva River, and then at Piskarevskoye Cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of siege victims are buried. The Red Army broke the nearly 2 1/2-year ...