Event · Liberation
Liberation of survivors in the forest
The Red Army arrived, supplied survivors, and brought them back to Bialystok.
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... On July 27, 1944, we heard people singing Russian
songs and we realized that our liberators had arrived.
We left the forest and were treated to a friendly recep-
tion by the Red Army, which provided us with clothing,
food and later took us back to Bialystok. For the first
time in a long while, I breathed easier, once again feel- ...Connected nodes