Event · Aktion Or Raid
Burning of Jews in the large synagogue
Nazi forces herded 2,000 Jews into a large synagogue and burned them alive.
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... The Nazi vandals entered Bialystok and, on that very day, herded 2,000 Jews into
the large Synagegue, where they were burned alive, along with the city’s Sage.
In the chronicles of annihilated Bialystok, the victims of that tragic day are known
as the ‘Freitogdige.”’ ...Connected nodes