Read Chernobyl Prayer

Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.

Fourteen million killed between Hitler and Stalin in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus; Snyder's map of the killing.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

Annie Ernaux's life from 1941 to 2006 as a collective French memory in the third person; her Nobel.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

Participate in the traditional Slavic celebration of Kupala Night, featuring rituals, bonfires, and flower wreaths

16th-century castle, UNESCO-listed.

Renaissance Radziwill palace and park.