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Escape from Blechamer
Bialystoker prisoners dug a tunnel under the camp fence and escaped.
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... force-marched to the Blechamer concentration camp.
Two days after their arrival, the Bialystoker contingent
dug a tunnel underneath the camp’s fence and escaped.
Among the brave Bialystoker Jews who fled Blechamer
were Lejzer Olszanski and his son, Chaim, who live in
Argentina; Jeszua Krawecki; Chaim Kurnianski; and
my husband, Szmuel Drogoczynski. ...Connected nodes