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Frida’s death during the Bialystok ghetto uprising
Frida was killed during the Bialystok ghetto uprising.
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... (This moving poem was written by Ruwen Rybalowski
in memory of his daughter Frida, killed in the Bialystok
ghetto uprising on August 16, 1943. He wrote these
lines while standing over the grave of seventy heroes
buried in the Zabia cemetery in Bialystok, his daughter
presumably among them. Ruwen Rybalowski, who
spent the war years in Russia, returned to his home-
town at the end of the war. He submitted this elegy to
the Jewish Reconstruction Committee in Bialystok in
December 1946. Mr. Rybalowski, the late brother of
Izaak Rybal, General Secretary of the Bialystoker Cen-
ter in New York, spent the rest of his life in Uruguay,
where he died in 1955. His younger daughter, Liza,
whom he mentions at the end of the poem, also passed
away there in 1972. This poem was copied from the
original by Dr. Szymon Datner.) ...Connected nodes