Person
Hersz Mersik
Hersz Mersik
Co-supervised the chronicle and collected materials for the ghetto archive.
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... Life in the Bialystok ghetto was chronicled in sev-
eral languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish and German),
under the supervision of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-
Tamarof and Hersz Mersik. Tamaroff was one of the
leading organizers of the armed resistance in the ghetto. ...Connected nodes
Organization
Mersik-Tamarof archive
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Event
Mersik-Tamarof archive established
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Event
Hersz Mersik died
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Person
Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof
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Organization
Mersik-Tamarof archive
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Place
Białystok Ghetto
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Place
Wilno
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Person
Bronja Winicka
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Person
Dr. Lejb Blumental
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Person
Filipowski
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Publication
The Bialystoker Memorial Book
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Hersz Mersik → Mersik-Tamarof archive
Mersik began collecting his documents for the ghetto archive
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