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Refoel Rajzner

Named contributor to articles about wartime Bialystok.

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... (Editor’s note: Refoel Rajzner, who was incarcerated in the Bialystok ghetto until the end, recorded shortly after the war all his experiences before, during, and after the ghetto. We offer here excerpts of his descrip- tions of the final liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto as well as the annihilation of its Jews, borrowed from his book, The Destruction of Bialystoker Jewry 1939-1945, published in 1948 by the Bialystoker Centre in Australia.) ...

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... (Editor’s note: In a letter to the Bialystoker Stimme, written by Refoel Rajzner in the May-June 1946 issue, the author offers the following details about Pejsach Kaplans’s death.) ...

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... While survivors like Chajke Grosman, Srolke Kot, Bronja Klibarski, Dr. Szymon Datner, Berel Mark, Refoel Rajzner, Dowid Klementynowski and others provided a rich bibliography about the Holocaust in Bialystok, it is still interesting to examine the minutes of the Judenrat meetings. ...

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Refoel Rajzner at the beginning of his book, The Fall of Bialystok Jewry — 1939 to 1945. The book continues to portray the influence of Soviet control in Bialystok and the events that took place shortly after the Russian occupation: ...

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... The following printers survived: Herszl Kozak, Refoel Rajzner and Jechiel Plac. ...

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