Event · Murder
Three Jews hanged
Three Jews were executed by hanging before the Judenrat building on December 31, 1942.
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... Three executions by hanging were carried out in
front of the Judenrat building in the Bialystok ghetto on
December 31, 1942, New Year’s Eve. Much of the Jew-
ish population was summoned to attend these proceed-
ings as a ‘deterrent’? to further crimes. ...Connected nodes