Event · Deportation
April 1940 deportations from Bialystok
Refugees and native Bialystok Jews were arrested and transported to Siberia and other Soviet regions.
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... At the end of April 1940, almost overnight, Rus-
sian secret police surrounded all the places where the
refugees hid, including the batei midrashim and commu-
nal institutions. Most were arrested, taken to the rail-
road in Bialystok and loaded into trains. They were
transported to remote areas in Siberia and other bru-
tally cold places in the Soviet Union. The same night
several thousand native Bialystoker Jews were also
apprehended, as well as non-Jews, and exiled. The rea-
son for these forced transfers was that Jews in Bialystok
had Soviet passports, were considered citizens and were
not allowed to live in the city, which was a border area. ...Connected nodes