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Count Bronicki

Count Bronicki

Credited with building Bialystok’s town clock.

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... Former Jewish residents of Bialystok recall today the towering town clock in the center of the city built by Count Bronicki more than two hundred years ago. Var- ious streets, lanes and byways enabled people to take pleasurable walks, the young citizens looking forward to better times. Nearby was a forest where Jewish stu- dents, working youth, white-collar employees and sales- men congregated — laughing, expressing joy, singing songs of freedom and love, setting forth a vision of a more beautiful world. ...
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