Zamenhof Street

אָפּג עװישט געװאָרן, ווען די אַרומיקע שטעט “OYOW TIX‏ לעך, וועלכע האָבן געשפּרודלט מיט אידיש לעבן, זיינען TIN‏ ,אידן-ריין", PR‏ ביאַליסטאָק גופא בלויז אָפּגץ: קומען מיט שרעק. עס זיינען נאָך אָבער אויסער דעם אויך WHA‏ אַנדערע טרויעריקע רעזולטאַטן. מען ONT‏ פון דער ביאַליסטאַקער NOVA‏ צוגענומען די גאַסן; זאַמענהאָף, זשידאָווסקאַ, אַ טייל ביאַלע און פּאָלנע, DX‏ שפּעטער JIN‏ דעם , פּשעיאַזד", די וואוינונג-פּראָבלעם PR‏ געװאָרן זייער שאַרף, ווייל די וואויןשטרעקע PR‏ פאַרקלענערט געװאָרן מיט 25 טויזנט קװואַדראַט מעטער. NAY TINA TANT TDN‏ מיט זייערע בעבעכעס PIN‏ די פּלייצעס. אַרױסגעיאָגט TID‏ די פאַרנומענע גאַסן, האָבן ON‏ די היימלאַזע מענער, פרויען TN‏ קינדער, געזוכט אַ ווינקל ביי באַקאַנטע, אַ פּיצל DIN‏ word‏ אַ בעט אַװעקצושטעלן. עס PN‏ אין דער JIN YAN?‏ אַנטקעגוגעקומען מיט הילף דער ואוין-אָפּטײל פון JPN‏ ראָט, וועלכער האָט זיך באַמיט צו באַזאָרגן וואוינונגען AND‏ היײימלאָזע,

... At 5 o’clock, it was learned that Barasz had been told all the Jews of Bialystok, together with the machines and the factories, would be transferred to Lublin, where they would carry on their work. An order was issued that all Jews who lived on Polna, Neu- welt, Czestochower, Bialostoczaner, Okrongle, Szlia- checzke, Linas Hatzedek, Czysta, Zytnia, Zamenhof, Kupiecka, Geldowa and nearby streets, must report to depots at Jurowcer, Fabryczna, Czepla, Nowogrudska, Chmielna and the Judenrat gardens at 9 o’clock in the morning for transfer to the railroad station. Those not complying with this deadline would be shot if found in the prohibited areas. It thus became clear to everyone that the entire ghetto was targeted for destruction. Already at seven in the morning, it was impossible to pass through the streets because so many thousands of Jews were painstakingly making their way toward the depots. ...

... ‘“At four in the morning on Thursday, July 3, the Nazis dragged from their homes men from the ages of 16 to 60. They closed off the following streets: Przejarz, Grochowa, Krakowska, Dambrowski, Kupiecka, Zamenhof, Bialystoczanska, Ruzanski, Zydowska, Bronska, Geldowa and Lipowa. Many foresaw what was coming and were able to hide. Approximately a thousand of the arrested men were lined up for ‘selec- tion.” [Who would live and who would die.] Workmen and artisans able to show callouses on their hands were separated from the rest and freed. The others, members of the intelligentsia and merchants, were detained. They were tortured all night and into the morning. Finally two hundred were loaded onto a truck that headed out of town. From that moment on, every trace of those Jews disappeared. It later became known that these two hundred were shot by the Nazis at Pietrasze Field, approximately two kilometers outside the city in the direction of Waszlykowa. They included: Dr. Jakow Rajfer; Wajnszel, instructor at Druskeniki Gymnasium; Aron Murkis, instructor at Zeligman Gymnasium; the merchant Rotsztejn ...