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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. ...
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