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Liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto
Nazis liquidated the Bialystok ghetto in August 1943.
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... The week of August 16-24, 1944, one year after the
Nazis liquidated the Bialystok ghetto, was proclaimed a
mourning period for the Jewish community. Approxi-
mately five hundred Jews who returned to the city
wished to demonstrate that the Nazis had failed to
exterminate all Bialystoker Jews. Furthermore, in a
short time, the renascent Jewish community created
several cultural and economic institutions — the best
proof that Bialystok was still alive. ...Connected nodes