Soviet Union

... WI‏ היטלער PNR‏ אָנגעפאַלן אומגעריכט PIN‏ סאַוועט- רוסלאַנד, דעם 22טן יוני 1941, איז געקומען אַ שרעקלעכץ איבערקערעניש, ONT‏ קיינער װאָלט ONT PT‏ גאָרניט “AND‏ געשטעלט אין דער גרעסטער פאַנטאַזיע. פאַר די אידן אין ביאַליסטאָק PT TANT‏ אָנגעהויבן גרויסע צרות, ליידן TN‏ פּיין, דערנידערונג און רויב. די רציחות פון די נאַציס איבער PNR TPN‏ געווען MIN‏ גרויס, TX‏ עס PN‏ גאַרניט צו פאַרשטיין ON‏ אַזױ מען ONT ONT‏ אױיסגעהאַלטן PR‏ יענער צייט. די געשטאַפּאָ מערדערס האָבן INT‏ געהאָט DIN‏ גוטע “DIN‏ העלפערס PR‏ די אוקראַינער, ליטווינער YR‏ קראַאַטן נאַכדעם PN‏ געקומען די טרויעריקע NOVI‏

אַ גרויסן פאַרדינסט קומט דעם ביאַליסטאָקער קאָמי טעט PR‏ פּאַריז, ביים העלפן די ביאַליסטאָקער 50 קינדער מיט אַלע נויטיקע OT AND‏ זאַכן. וי באַוואוסט, זיינען די קינדער מיט אַ צייט צוריק געקומען פון ראַטנפאַרבאַנד מיט זייער אויפזעער ה. טאָביאַש. די קינדער קאָלאָניע TT ONT‏ געפונען PN‏ ראַטשילד'ס זומער-פּלאַץ, פערציק “NPP‏ מעטער אונטער פּאַריז, וואו זיי זיינען VEN‏ באַזוכט געװאָרן פון די פאַרװאַלטונגס מיטגלידער PIC‏ ביאַליסטאָקער לאַנדסלײט PR‏ פּאַריז, ...

... guests with further. warm holiday greetings. Fiszl Fajnfeld suggested that A group of Jandsleit who arrived in Paris directly everyone rise in tribute to the martyrs of Bialystok. He from Bialystok was warmly received by the committee, expressed warm wishes for the Bialystoker Center in which offered all necessary aid. New York, as well as for Bialystokers all over the Many thanks to Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski, who world. Special greetings were sent to the /Jandsleit in found temporary quarters for transient Bialystokers. Australia who had obtained visas for hundreds of Bia- Furthermore, the committee resettled the fifty Bualy- lystokers, saving them from the Nazi clutches. stoker children who arrived in Paris from the Soviet The seder ended with all the guests expressing their Union, led by their teacher, Jakow Tobias. We set upa appreciation to the committee for sponsoring this mov- colony for them in the Rothschilds’ summer home, ing traditional Passover seder, which gave landsleit in forty kilometers outside Paris. Several members of the Paris the opportunity to celebrate the holiday together. executive and other Bialystokers visited them quite The Bialystoker Committee in Paris, assisted by often. Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski, a printer, decided to issue an Wolf Babicz and David Podliaschouk were instru- album containing Bialystok ghetto songs with musical mental in providing care for these orphans. The well- notes. ...

... In September 1939, when Bialystok was under Rus- sian rule, these eighty Jewish children spent their summer vacation in the Polish resort, Druskenikt1. When the Nazis attacked Bialystok on June 22, 1941, these children were quickly evacuated deep inside the Soviet Union. Tobias, their devoted teacher and escort, went with them into the heart of the Urals. There the children were placed in a home together with young- sters from other countries. ...

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... One of the reasons many Polish Jews, in fleeing from the Nazis, were interested in reaching Bialystok was that 1} was easier to steal into this city than into other places. Moreover, once in Bialystok, there was not too much difficulty in crossing the border into the Soviet Union. The peasants who lived in border areas at that time profited financially from assisting the uninter- rupted flow of refugees in entering Russia. At first, frontier crossings were not too arduous. A short time after the war’s outbreak, however, the Soviet border guards, increasingly vigilant, succeeded in repelling ille- gal aliens back into Nazi-occupied Poland. It often occurred that the unsuccessful refugees, driven back across the border, were brutally beaten by Nazi soldiers for their attempt to leave German jurisdiction. When Bialystok was completely overrun by the Soviet Army on September 17, 1939, the influx of refu- ...