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Great Synagogue of Bialystok
גרויסער שוהל
The Great Synagogue where Nazi forces confined Jewish men and children in 1941.
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Source OCR · scan 312 · printed page 296
... ווען מיר זיינער צוגעקומען צום פּלאַץ, IND עס PR
AND דער מלחמה געווען די גרויסע שוהל, PRINT ווידער
געהאַט אַ ביטערע איבערלעבעניש. עס דאַרף דערמאַנט
ווערן, אַז IVI די נאַצישע רוצחים זיינען אַרײנגעקומען קיין
ביאַליסטאָק, פרייטיק דעם 27טן יוני 1941 -- ד' תמוז,
תש"א, TINT זיי אַרײנגעטריבן PN דער גרויסער שוהל צוויי
טויזנט אידישע מענער, PR PIP קינדער. די “DIN
גליקלעכע TPN זיינען, טאַקע דעם זעלבן טאָג, פאַרברענט
TID FINDA די נאַציס, ימ"ש, צוזאַמען מיט דעם באַוואוסטן
מקום קדוש אין דער שטאָט,Source passage 2
Source OCR · scan 497
... My family and I lived in a small apartment on the
third floor of a modest building. Desolation surrounded
us. Because very few structures remained, I was able to
see the distant forests directly from my window. All
that was left of the Great Synagogue, burned by the
Nazis when they first arrived, was its large dome, now a
memento of death clamoring for revenge from its rest-
ing place on the ground. It was spring; warm weather
encouraged the broken Jews to hope for better times.
Each day we heard bulletins on the radio about new
Allied victories. The Third Reich, which had looked
forward to a thousand-year reign, was smashed. ...Connected nodes
Event
Confinement of Jewish men and children in Bialystok
Occurred At · Subject
Event
Burning of the Great Synagogue
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Place
Bialystok
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Community
Bialystok
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Person
Rabbi Dr. Awrom Krawets
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Community
Bialystok
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Institution
Synagogue in Bialystok
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Place
39 Kupiecka Street
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Organization
Red Army
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Organization
Polish Army
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Organization
Nazis
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Organization
Third Reich
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Located In
Bialystok → Great Synagogue of Bialystok
All that was left of the Great Synagogue, burned by the Nazis when they first arrived
- context:
- Great Synagogue described in Bialystok
Associated events
Aktion Or Raid · 1941-06-27
Confinement of Jewish men and children in Bialystok
Nazi perpetrators drove two thousand Jewish men and children into the Great Synagogue on June 27, 1941.
Fire · 1941-06-27
Burning of the Great Synagogue
The Nazis burned the Great Synagogue and the people confined inside it on the same day.