Event · Fire
Burning of Grajewo
Cossacks came and burned Grajewo down in 1905.
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... My father, Jacob Sapirstein, was born in Bialystok
and later lived in Grajewo, a nearby village. In 1905,
the Cossacks came and burned it down. At that time
the Russo-Japanese War was being fought, and my
father decided to leave rather than go into the army,
because he had seen his friends coming back as cripples.
He watched despairingly as straw-filled wagons pulled
up, disgorging maimed soldiers with no concern for
their welfare. Families and friends had to take care of
them as best they could. My father vowed to leave
home to escape the Czarist oppression. ...Connected nodes