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Grajewo

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Grajewo was one of the circles within Bialystok District.

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ווען די היטלער-מאַכט PN‏ אָנגעפאַלן HNN‏ סאָװעט-רוסלאַנד, אין יוני ו194, האָבן די נאַצישע הערשער אינגעשטעלט אַ. נײע אַדמיניסטראַטיווע צעטיילונג פון די אָקופּירטע געבּיטן ONY‏ זיינען פריער געווען x‏ טייל פון yon,‏ אויך די געגענט PD‏ בּיאַליסטאָק אוז אוינגעטיילט געװאָרן PR‏ אַ בּאַזונדערן געבּיט, אונטערן נאָמען "בּאַצירק בּיאַליסטאָק". װי עס Px‏ צו זען פון דער מאַפּע האָט דער "בּאַצירק בּיאַליסטאָק" אַרומגענומען פאָלגענדע קרייזן : בּיאַליסטאָק, בּיעלסק, אױגוסטאָוו, גראיעווע, לאָמזשע, װאָלקאָװיסק, סאָקאָלקע, װיסאָקע-מאזאַװיעצק, פּרוזשענע און גראָדנע. ...
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Yan‏ אָבער מען Pr UNA‏ ניט געװואַלט טרייסטן, וי אויך ברענגען טרייסט צו אַנדערע, האָט יעדער טאָג מיט זיך געבראַכט אַזעלכע נייעסן, OND‏ האָבן פאַרביטערט ONT‏ לעבן. אַזױ האָט PNR‏ האַרבסט 1942 PT‏ אָנגעהויבן “AND‏ שפּרײטן קלאַנגען, IN‏ די נאַציס גרייטן PT‏ צו ליקווידירן די TON‏ פון דער גאַנצער געגנט אַרום ביאַליסטאָק, ONT‏ מיינט פון דער אַרומיקער גאַנצער וװאַיעװאַדסטװע, װאָס PR‏ געווען באַקאַנט אַלס , באַצירק ביאַליסטאָק". דעם דאָזיקן ,באַצירק ביאַליסטאָק" האָט די היטלער-מאַכט איינגעטײילט, אַזױ וי זיי האָבן INVA PIN ONT‏ מיט דיסטריקטן PR‏ צענטראַל-פּױלן, PR‏ פאָלגענדע קריין: ביאַליסטאָק, ביעלסק, גראָדנע, גראיעווע, װאָלקאַװיסק, װיסאָקע-מאַזאָ וויעצק, יאַגעסטאָוו, לאָמזשע, סאָקאָלקע VR‏ פּרוזשענע. דער דאָזיקער , באַצירק" אַרום ביאַליסטאָק האָט אַרומגע- נומען צענדליקער שטעט און שטעטלעך, וואו עס האָבן געלעבט DMN‏ צוויי הונדערט טויזנט אידן. צוזאַמען מיט די קלאַנגען וועגן דעם, IN‏ די נאַציס גרייטן PT‏ צו ליקווידירן די TPN‏ פון דער ביאַליסטאָקער װאַיעװאָדסטװע, DAN PN‏ נאַכגעקומען די נייעס, IN‏ נאָך דער פּראַווינץ װעט קומען ONT‏ ליקווידירן פון די אידן אין ביאַליסטאָק גופא SPIN‏
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... My father, Jacob Sapirstein, was born in Bialystok and later lived in Grajewo, a nearby village. In 1905, the Cossacks came and burned it down. At that time the Russo-Japanese War was being fought, and my father decided to leave rather than go into the army, because he had seen his friends coming back as cripples. He watched despairingly as straw-filled wagons pulled up, disgorging maimed soldiers with no concern for their welfare. Families and friends had to take care of them as best they could. My father vowed to leave home to escape the Czarist oppression. ...
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... Jewish culture in the ghetto. They wrote about other tragic episodes in Jewish history and chronicled the daily atrocities in their own environment. The days, weeks and months in the Bialystok ghetto seemed like an eternity to the inmates forced to . live in severely congested quarters, poverty, hunger and squalor. Thousands of men and women were let out daily to perform slave labor for the Nazis. Tragic news reached the ghetto in grim detail about the suffering and extermination of Jews in surrounding communities such as Slonim, Lomza, Bielsk, Grajewo, Tyktin and other places. These reports were brought to Bialystok by Jews who had managed to escape from these other liquidated towns. Many Bialystoker Jews had relatives in these places, and the news of their annihilation brought even more pain to their lives. ...
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... In April 1906, a regional conference of Labor Zionists was held in Bialystok at which Grodno, Brisk, Grajewo, Wolkowisk, Horodok and other communities were represented. A regional committee was appointed including: Jankl Janowski, Josef Antokolski, Chajkel Oldak, Fajwel Weber and me. ...
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Jacob Sapirstein
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GrajewoBialystok District
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later lived in Grajewo
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