Event · Organization Founding
Formation of the Bialystok Judenrat
Nazi authorities ordered Jewish leaders to form a Judenrat in Bialystok.
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... Sunday, June 29, 1941, two days after the Nazis
entered Bialsytok, their commandant summoned Chief
Rabbi Gedalja Rozenman and the former Director of
the Kehilla, the engineer Efrajim Barasz. He ordered
them to form a Judenrat (a Jewish council), through
which the local Nazi authorities could issue all kinds of
ordinances and regulations affecting the Jews. Rabbi
Rosenman and Engineer Barasz conveyed the new edict
to other leading Jewish figures. Soon afterward, a
Judenrat was appointed containing twenty-four Jews,
including two women. They included: Rabbi Rozen-
man, Efrajim Barasz, Dowid Subotnik, Mr. Liman,
Jakow Goldberg (these five constituted the executive
committee); Mend! Kaplan, Dr. M. Kacenelson, H.
Glikson, Pejsach Kaplan, Mordechaj Chmelnik, Szmuel
Punianski, Rabbi Boruch Eli Halpern, Rabbi Pinje
Ajzensztat, Jakow Lifszic, Aba Furman, Mojsze Szwif,
Izak Markus; Awrom Tyktin, Cwi Wider, Pejsach
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