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Szymon Datner

Committee member for constructing Kiryat Bialystok in Israel.

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... To be sure, I reserved time to visit Bialystok as soon as I knew I would travel to Poland. Tuesday, December 13, 1977 was free. Dr. Szymon Datner, who lives in Warsaw, knew in advance about my plans and was prepared to accompany me to Bialystok. We left Warsaw Tuesday morning in a taxi. Little did I realize that a bitter experience awaited me later that day. ...

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... The Jewish Reconstruction Committee, led by Dr. Szymon Datner — M. Turek, director; Sz. Lewin, direc- tor; Pejsach Bursztejn, director; A. Dereczynski, direc- tor; Jedidja Hamburg, director; H. Bratmacher, director; Jehuda Grynhojz, director; Mira Grosman, director; J. Czernychow, director; D. Kolesznyk, direc- tor; Chana Rabinzon-Berkowicz, director; A. Grodzk1, director; A. Goldman, director; S. Lewin, director; S. Grynsztejn, director; A. Erdepel, director; A. Ostro- burski and A. Gerszuni, directors; A. Berkowicz, direc- tor; J. Bialostocki, director; chauffeurs training school, Z. Konjucki, director — was the only such body recog- nized by the Polish government. Jewish political parties of all persuasions, from Mizrachi to the Jewish commu- nists, were represented. The committee was divided into subcommittees that served the Jews returning to Bialy- stok. Moreover, labor cooperatives provided a living for a number of families and helped the s ...

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... Crestapo Commandant Gustav Friedl’s trial took place in the Bialystok Appeals Court at the end of October 1949. Approximately twenty witnesses, who had suffered under the Nazis, gave testimony against Fried! at the trial, which lasted several days. Among them were: Chackel Fendzuch, Awrom Ostroburski, Dowid Kolesznik, Szlojme Blas, Chaim Wrubel, Isroel Bramson, Mira Knaziew, Efrajim Kisler, Fanja Lipin- ska, Dr. Tobtjasz Cytron, Rochel Zacharijasz, Berta Knaziew and others. The prosecution’s expert witness was the well-known historian and chronicler of the de- struction of Bialystok, Dr. Szymon Datner. ...

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... The first mass slaughter of Jews in Bialystok car- ried out by the Nazis occurred on Thursday, July 3, 1941. Those who perished on that day came to be known as the “Thursday martyrs.” Dr. Szymon Datner, well-known educator and historian, who was a witness to these Nazi crimes in Bialystok and later par- ticipated in the resistance, tells of this slaughter in the November-December 1946 issue of the Bialystoker Stimme as follows: ...

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