Event · Aktion Or Raid
Destruction of the Bialystok ghetto
The Bialystok ghetto was destroyed in summer 1943, beginning severe danger for Fannie and Sholem.
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... The two of us were then young people, engaged to
be married. In the summer of 1943, when the Bialystok
ghetto was destroyed, real trouble began. Sholem was
then a young man of seventeen, I a bit younger. ...Connected nodes