Event · Deportation
Deportation of captured Jewish fighters
Captured Jewish fighters were deported to Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz.
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... n the Bialystok ghetto were very different from
those in the Warsaw ghetto. Bialystok was not
surrounded by a brick wall, but with wooden par-
titions. Its buildings were small and constructed
of wood. All this made it more difficult for the
Jewish resistance fighters to defend themselves,
for they were afforded no protection from Nazi
firepower. Nevertheless, the battles lasted several
days. On the fourth day, German armored tanks
and field artillery entered the ghetto, reinforced
by about a thousand SS soldiers and Ukrainians.
The Jews attempted to repulse them mainly with
grenades and Molotov cocktails. They also had a
few machine guns. Several hundred Germans and
Ukrainians were killed. The Jewish fighters were
captured and deported to Treblinka, Majdanek
and Auschwitz. A small group succeeded in reach-
ing the forests, where they united with the
Partisans. ...Connected nodes