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Establishment of Kiryat Bialystok
Bialystok survivors and landsleit established a community in Israel after World War II.
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... (Editor’s note: Following World War II, surviving men,
women and children from Bialystok arrived in Israel
amid great difficulty. They, together with /andsleit who
had settled in Palestine years earlier, established a Bia-
lystoker community in the Holy Land, which demon-
strated their determination to perpetuate the legacy of
their beloved hometown. Kiryat Bialystok (village of
Bialystok) won’ the immediate support of the Bualy-
stoker Center in New York, landsleit in other American
and Canadian cities, and throughout the world. Thanks
to this enthusiastic backing, Kiryat Bialystok became a
reality. Following are excerpts from the first letter writ-
ten by Bialystokers in Israel in 1948, shortly after the
establishment of the State, to their counterparts in
America about building Kiryat Bialystok.) ...Connected nodes