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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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... 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,
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... 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. ...
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All that was left of the Great Synagogue, burned by the Nazis when they first arrived
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