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Bielsk Jewish community
ביעלסק
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Source OCR · scan 32 · printed page 16
... די עלטסטע קהילות ביי אידן WIT געווען: PR
טיקאָצין (1522); PNR ביעלסק PN ביאַליסטאָק (1542); PN
אָרלי (1616); באָטשקי (1648); אױגוסטאָװו (1674); קנישין
(1705); ראַיגראָדזש (1719); יאַשיאַנאָװוקע (1721); PN TN
גאָניאַנדז )1764(. עס WANT באַמערקט ווערן, אַז אין דער
צווייטער העלפט TD דעם 18טן יאָרהונדערט, PN ליקווי"
דירט TANYA די קהילה PR ביעלסק. PR דעם זעלבן 18טן
יאָרהונדערט, INT די מערסטע אידן PR יענער געגנט “YX
וואוינט PR ביאַליסטאַָק און טיקאָצין. עס איז צו גלויבן, TR
אַרום אַ העלפט פון PR IPN YOM דער ביאַליסטאַקער
געגנט, האָבן אין יענער צייט געלעבט אין דערפער.Source passage 2
Source OCR · scan 273 · printed page 257
סטאָקער, די איבעריקע זיינען פון דער ביאַליסטאָקער אומ-
געגנט. YON אידישע ישובים פון דער ביאַליסטאַָקער “PONY
װאָדשאַפט זיינען ליקווידירט. PR ONION I בלוז
ביעלסק, וואו עס געפינען זיך WI ביים היינטיקן טאָג 76
אידן, TIN סאָװאַלק מיט 26 אידן. PN ONT געבליבן AND דעם
שרעקלעכן אין דער געשיכטע WI באַגעגנטן מאָסן-מאַרד
פון 300,000 TID TPN דער ביאַליסטאָקער װאָיעװאָדשאַפט, ...Source passage 3
Source OCR · scan 495
... About 712 Jews live in Bialystok today. Two
hundred ninety two of them are native Bialystokers, the
remainder from surrounding towns. All of the Jewish
provincial communities were totally destroyed, with the
exception of Bielsk, where seventy-six Jews live, and
Suwalk, with thirty-six. Nearly 300,000 Jews from the
towns around Bialystok were exterminated. ...Source passage 4
Source OCR · scan 537
... But each day brought news that sent waves of dis-
heartenment throughout the ghetto. In the fall of 1942,
rumors spread that the Nazis were preparing to annihi-
late the Jews within the communities around Bialystok.
The Bialystok district encompassed scores of towns and
villages — including Bialystok, Bielsk, Grodno,
Grajewo, Wolkowisk, Wisoki-Mozowieck, Augustow,
Lomza, Sokolka and Pruzane — which contained about
200,000 Jews. Word also spread that after the Nazis got
through with Jews in the provinces, the ghetto in Bia-
lystok would be next. ...Connected nodes
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