Event · Deportation
Deportation train leaves Bialystok
Jews were divided by work suitability and loaded onto a train leaving Bialystok.
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... At 12 noon a large group of Jews was divided into
“suitable for work’’ and “unsuitable for work.’’ Those
in the first category were forced with cattle prods into
the forward twenty cars of a train. The unsuitables were
jammed into the rear twenty railroad cars, and locked
in. On the roof of each car, a Nazi with a machine gun
stood guard, making sure no one jumped from the
train. A number of Jews, as they were being forced into
the train, managed to grab weapons from the soldiers
but were immediately shot. The train then left Bialystok
in the direction of Warsaw. ...Connected nodes