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Szymon Datner arrived in Bialystok
Datner arrived in Bialystok in September 1928 after leaving his Pinsk teaching position.
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... I arrived in Bialystok in September 1928, after leaving
my position as an instructor in the Tarbut Hebrew
Gymnasium in Pinsk. My wife, Roza, and daughter
Miriam came to Bialystok several weeks later. In 1929,
my second daughter, Szulamit, was born, a native of
Bialystok. For several years, Roza was a crafts instruc-
tor at the Hebrew Gymnasium, while Miriam and Szu-
lamit were students until it was destroyed. Who would
have thought that I would write this article decades
later as the only survivor of this four-member family, or
that I would eulogize Jewish Bialystok and my school,
where I served from 1928 until 1941? ...Connected nodes