The Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Volgograd, Russia, marked the May 9 holiday of Victory Day by launching a massive research project designed to document the experiences of local Jewish community members in the Battle of Stalingrad and the Holocaust.

Schoolchildren visited the Oktyabrysk neighborhood of the city, site of a particularly bloody chapter in the famous World War II siege of the city by Nazi forces, as well as a site where Nazi soldiers shot more than 100 Jewish residents. …