Bialystok Jewish community
The Jewish community of Bialystok is commemorated through memorial ceremonies and resistance remembrance.
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... Many Jews from other towns and cities also
marched to express their solidarity with Bialystoker
Jews. They represented the political spectrum from
right to left. The Polish flag appeared along with
banners of the various parties. Each delegation brought
floral wreaths with ribbons bearing Yiddish, Hebrew
and Polish inscriptions, paying tribute to Bialystok’s
martyrs. Buialystoker /Jandsmanschaft representatives
from other lands also participated. One religious orga-
nization hoisted a placard reading “May God avenge
the blood of our loved ones.” ...... We interred them in one mass grave together with
the ghetto heroes. Furthermore, we erected a monu-
ment over their grave that pays tribute to their heroism
and to their eternal sacredness. Alas, their grave and
monument remain unvisited, for there are no more
Jews to be found in Bialystok. ...the Chairman of the Judenrat, Efrajim Barasz.
Seventy resistance fighters confronted the final Nazi assault on the Bialystok ghetto on August 16, 1943.
One hundred twenty-five Jews, including seventy resistance fighters and fifty-five Nazi victims, were buried in a mass grave after exhumation.
Jewish resistance fighters fought German forces during the Bialystok ghetto liquidation.
Captured Jewish fighters were deported to Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz.