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Szymon Garfinkel
Szymon Garfinkel
Sholem Garfinkel’s father and Bialystok ghetto resistance fighter.
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... My husband, Sholem Garfinkel, and I endured much
suffering during the terrible Nazi occupation of Poland.
Our shared misery began in the Bialystok ghetto, where
we were imprisoned with our families. My husband
came there with his family from Trestina at the end of
1941, when the Nazis began expelling and liquidating
the Jews in the small surrounding towns. His family
consisted of about one hundred people. After the war,
however, he remained the sole survivor. His father,
Szymon Garfinkel, who was forty-three, joined the
heroic resistance in the Bialystok ghetto. The Nazis shot
him along with other freedom fighters. As for my large
family, only I, an older sister, and a cousin remain. ...Connected nodes
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Sholem Garfinkel
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Białystok Ghetto
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Szymon Garfinkel joined ghetto resistance
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Szymon Garfinkel → Bialystok ghetto
joined the heroic resistance in the Bialystok ghetto
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