Event · Aktion Or Raid
Bialystok ghetto liquidation begins
German, Ukrainian, and White Russian forces began liquidating the Bialystok ghetto on August 16, 1943.
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... During the night of August 16, 1943, thick shadows,
like black crows, spread throughout the Bialystok
ghetto with its 40,000 captive Jews. It seemed as if the
jet blackness of the night carried with it an omen — the
sealed fate of death and ruin for the prestigious Jewish
city and its proud community. ...Connected nodes