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Jewish communities in provinces surrounding Bialystok
Jews from the provinces surrounding Bialystok
Jewish population from surrounding provinces was evacuated before February action.
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... A few months after the ‘‘evacuation” of 200,000
Jews from the provinces surrounding Bialystok, its
ghetto was to suffer the ‘“‘February action.”’ This consti-
tuted the Nazis’ first serious effort to liquidate the
ghetto. Despite the widespread assumption that as long
as the people were useful to the Third Reich they would
be unharmed, the ‘‘February operation’? dashed the
hopes of even the most outspoken optimists. ...Connected nodes
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Bialystok Jewish community
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Białystok Ghetto
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Destroyed house of religious study on Jatka Street
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Polna Street
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