Red Army entry into Bialystok

... These macabre last words were inscribed during the final days of Nazi rule in Bialystok. On July 27, 1944, the first battalions of the Red Army entered Bia- lystok, together with Partisan forces containing many Jews. The Nazis murdered a few remaining Jews until five minutes before the Russians arrived. The last testa- ments of their victims, however, remained scribbled on the walls of the prison. ...