The UN has warned of catastrophic levels of food insecurity in Gaza, as well as declaring it the hungriest place on Earth. As millions of civilians are affected, Guy Walters looks at how hunger in con ...

Soviet troops dealt crushing defeats to Germany in 1943 in Stalingrad and Kursk ... known as “Vitya,” during the 2 1/2-year Nazi siege of his home of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. ”It was the ...

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

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 ...

The siege of Leningrad lasted for almost 900 days ... he died in prison in 1943. The scientists at his beloved institute, left leaderless, grappled with how best to preserve their remarkable ...

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.

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 ...