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Zalman Sznejur

Poet who wrote the monument’s Hebrew epitaph.

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All the victims of this pogrom were buried in a mass grave, in a prestigious place within the old Jewish cemetery in Bialystok. Above this grave a tall monu- ment was erected, inscribed with a special epitaph, in Hebrew, by the well-known poet Zalman Sznejur. This inscription was. translated into Yiddish by L. Fajans and into English as follows: ...

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The monument erected at the mass grave of the 1906 pogrom victims in the Bagnowke Cemetery. The epitaph was composed by the famous poet, Zalman Sznejur. ...

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