Example Sentences

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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