Event · Migration
Evacuation to the Soviet Union
The children were evacuated deep inside the Soviet Union after the Nazi attack.
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... In September 1939, when Bialystok was under Rus-
sian rule, these eighty Jewish children spent their
summer vacation in the Polish resort, Druskenikt1.
When the Nazis attacked Bialystok on June 22, 1941,
these children were quickly evacuated deep inside the
Soviet Union. Tobias, their devoted teacher and escort,
went with them into the heart of the Urals. There the
children were placed in a home together with young-
sters from other countries. ...Connected nodes