Izchok Lach

... The victims included: Dr. Kracowski, Note Jakob- son (accountant), Kaplan (manufacturer-merchant on Kupiecka Street); the famous chess master Aron Zablu- dowski; Poliak (pharmacist); the comic Alter Sztajnberg (Chalele); Izchok Brener; Radzinower (restaurateur of the “Aquarium’’); the cork manufacturer Jamnik; res- taurateurs Michel Grodzenski, his son and son-in-law; the merchant Byspucki; Fuksman (son of the former furniture manufacturer); the football player Izchok Lach; Awram Spektor and his two sons; and Dowid Wisock1. ...

... When the Nazis invaded Bialystok, many of its fin- est sportsmen, who earned such prestige for their home- town, perished, mostly in the Bialystok ghetto. They included: Szoul Osowicki — soccer player, ghetto resis- ter; Orkin — light athletics; Izchok Brzezinski — boxer; Galand — soccer player, ghetto fighter. Tortured and murdered by the Gestapo after his capture for attempt- ing to buy arms for his resistance organizations: Gerszuni — electrical engineer. Perished in July 1941 after being accused by Polish Fascists of being a Communist: Lowke Grinberg — sportsman. Died in the ‘‘Thursday”’ or ‘‘Sat- urday’’ massacre: Becalel Wigodski — light athletics; Izchok Lach — light athletics. Died in Great Synagogue fire: Nochum Machaj — basketball player; Mojshe Sal- man — secretary of Maccabee Club and sports editor of Das Neue Leben: Luba Subotnik — light athletics; Spektor — tennis player. Perished during the first liquidation: Pejsach Pomeranc — sportsman and athletics instructor; Szoul Pastrigacz — boxer. Perished in Saturday mass- acre: Becalel Frenkl — tennis player. Died during Thurs- day massacre: Sarczyk Frenkl — the above’s brother. Tennis player; Boruch Kagan — basketball player; Binjo- min Kameniecki — secretary of Maccabee and kehilla sec- retary; Chackel Kusznier — boxer; Andrzej Robel — light athletics; Aron Rubin — bicyclist. ...