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Solasz returned to Knyszin
Solasz returned to Knyszin when Nazis constructed the Bialystok ghetto in 1941.
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... In 1939, during Solasz’s eleventh year, Bialystok
became a pawn, moving back and forth between Rus-
sian and Nazi hegemony. Under the Russian occupa-
tion, Solasz moved from Knyszin to Bialystok. When
the Nazi invaders constructed the infamous ghetto in
Bialystok in 1941, he returned to Knyszin. Life was fast
becoming precarious for every Jew, the Solasz family
included. ...Connected nodes