Jaszynowka

Against the backdrop of mass deportations of Jews in the nearby communities, escalating severity of pun- ishments in the Bialystok ghetto, liquidation of Jaszy- nowka and Pruzane, where 4,500 Bialystoker Jews had been sent in the fall of 1941, the young factory workers in the ghetto began to prepare for armed resistance. ...

... The driving force behind the Tel Chai kibbutz, who later would be one of the heroes in the Bialystoker re- sistance against the Nazis, was Mordechaj Tenenbaum- Tamarof. He came to Bialystok during the war from Wilno, Warsaw and other places where he had been active in organizing and leading resistance campaigns against the Nazis. The kibbutz boasted of other young leaders and several scores of members committed to make Aliyah who later demonstrated tremendous hero- ism against the Nazi oppressors. They included: Cwi Hersz Mersik of Melnice, near Kowel; Herszl Cwi Rozental of Jaszynowka; Ruwen Rozenberg of Sucho- wolja; Chanoch Zelaznagora of Szedliec; Jochewed Wajnsztein of Knyszin; Gedalja Petljuk of Knyszin; Cypora Birman of Rozyszcze; Tema Sznajderman of Warsaw, and others. ...