Krystyna Chiger News Today

In the 1940’s, in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, a 13-year-old Jewish girl named Krystyna Chiger spent more than a year hiding from the Nazis in the city sewers to avoid capture. During that time, she wore a green sweater and later wrote a book about her experience called “The Girl in the Green Sweater.” That book sent a Maryland woman on a year's long odyssey. Ksenia Turkova reports. Camera: Alexey Zonov

The subreddit r/Kanye is no longer analyzing the rapper's lyrics — it's educating about the dangers of Nazism and the Holocaust.

The researchers discovered how at least 20 Jews were able to remain alive in the gutter for more than a year among rats and worms.

Artifacts from the group of 21 who were fleeing the Nazis are found in a large cave under Lviv's streets; local historian tells Reuters they dug a tunnel from the ghetto

Tunnel's discovery made as Israel and Ukraine prepare to commemorate anniversary of Babi Yar massacre.

Tunnel's discovery made as Israel and Ukraine prepare to commemorate anniversary of Babi Yar massacre.

Under cobblestone streets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, diggers have uncovered new hiding spots in underground sewers where some Jews managed to flee from Nazi occupation forces during World War II. More than 100,000 Jews, or about one-third of the city’s population at the time, were killed by the Nazis, local historian Hanna Tychka said. A few managed to survive, including father and daughter Ignacy and Krystyna Chiger, who escaped from the Jewish ghetto by digging a tunnel to the ci...

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Under cobblestone streets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, diggers have uncovered new hiding spots in underground sewers where some Jews managed to flee from Nazi occupying forces during World War Two.

Under cobblestone streets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, diggers have uncovered new hiding spots in underground sewers where some Jews managed to flee from Nazi occupying forces during World War Two.

Under cobblestone streets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, diggers have uncovered new hiding spots in underground sewers where some Jews managed to flee from Nazi occupying forces during World War Two.