Event · Ghetto Establishment
Establishment of the Bialystok ghetto
Nazi authorities established the Bialystok ghetto on August 1, 1941, imprisoning 60,000 Jews.
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... FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941
The barbarous Nazis set up the Bialystoker ghettc where 60,000 jews were
imprisoned. ...Connected nodes