- a variation of Byelorussia.
Belorussia
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Having narrowly escaped, Miriam’s group set off for the only place that offered real hope to the Jews interned in ghettos in the former Soviet-occupied territories of Poland and Belorussia: the forest.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2021
Miller’s great-grandparents Wolf and Bessie Glotzer were refugees fleeing the pogroms in Belorussia.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2019
And it gives him a sensibility—that’s why he can identify with these hopeless causes in Belorussia or wherever.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 18, 2018
And that came just after Operation Bagration in Belorussia had dealt Hitler's troops a devastating blow.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2015
The Germans first stormed through the cities of the Soviet states of Belorussia and Ukraine.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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