Event · Return Migration
Return of Bialystok Jews from Pruzane
Approximately 1,500 Bialystoker Jews left Pruzane and returned to the Bialystok ghetto.
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... Another reverberation of the expulsion to Pruzane
was that in the spring of 1942, some 1,500 Bialystoker
Jews left Pruzane and sneaked back into the Bialystok
ghetto. When the Nazis learned of this, they threatened
mass reprisals, forcing the Judenrat to warn the evac-
uees not to return. To some extent, these warnings
decreased the incidence of illegal return but did not
stop it altogether. On the other hand, the Germans did
not continue to press the issue. ...Connected nodes