Blyzin

attention in the small infirmary at Blyzin. The witness, a doctor, testified that the accused came to see how he was treating the wounded and did not permit him to administer any anesthesia. סא"‎ chloroform! No ether! It is enough to anesthetize Jews with a hammer-blow over their heads.” ...

... Tens of thousands of Bialystoker Jews were sent to Treblinka, Auschwitz and Majdanek in the summer of 1943, when the Bialystok ghetto was liquidated, and were exterminated. Other Jews were sent to the Lublin- Poniatow, Blyzin and other slave camps, where they were tortured. Thus many hundreds of years of Bialy- stoker Jewish history came to an end. ...

... The men arrived in Lublin two days later, after a grueling journey in which many had been shot or trampled. A thousand people, comprising tailors, cobblers and other tradesmen, left Lublin for Blyzin, which was a work camp. Many believed Blyzin was worse than a concentration camp, because the combina- tion of hard labor, the bitter winter cold, hunger and illness, caused hundreds of deaths. ...