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Suwalk Jewish community
Suwalk
One surviving provincial Jewish community, with thirty-six Jews.
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... About 712 Jews live in Bialystok today. Two
hundred ninety two of them are native Bialystokers, the
remainder from surrounding towns. All of the Jewish
provincial communities were totally destroyed, with the
exception of Bielsk, where seventy-six Jews live, and
Suwalk, with thirty-six. Nearly 300,000 Jews from the
towns around Bialystok were exterminated. ...Connected nodes