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Beryl
Beryl
The narrator’s father’s brother, who died of typhus at Blizin.
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... From Majdanek they took us to Blizin — which was
a labor camp. We worked for long hours, without sleep
and without food. Many died. While in Blizin my young-
est brother, Yankel, and my father’s brother, Beryl, con-
tracted typhus and both died. In June 1944, they moved
us again, this time to Auschwitz, where the next chapter of
our tragic lives began. ...Connected nodes
Event
Deaths from typhus at Blizin
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Bialystok Jewish community
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Jurowiecka Street
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Petrasie fields
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Treblinka
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Majdanek
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Blizin
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Auschwitz
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Joseph Mengele
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Jewish children from Wilno
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The Bialystoker Memorial Book
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Kalman Schwecher
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