Event · Murder
Two pogroms killed 130 Jewish people
Bialystok lost 130 Jewish lives during two pogroms.
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... When the first clandestine stirrings of the Russian
Revolution convulsed the world, it was on the anvil of
Bialystok that the formidable power was forged to
smash the massive Czarist empire into dust. Bialystok
paid for this privilege with 130 Jewish lives lost during
two pogroms. In the annals of the freedom movement
the name of Bialystok will be forever engraved in
golden letters. ...Connected nodes